User Feedback :: indestructible DSL from DOS (loadlin, restoreConf)

have you tried knoppix? it has a "windows like" interface. works well if you dont have a winmodem. if you do, or you dont have a linux compatable router, then no internet for you, of couirse this is thesame for all linux distros

Either KNOPPIX or PCLinuxOS would be a good choice...and please dont come to our forum bagging on us...you will get alot better responses if you loose your poor attitude...

Brian
AwPhuch

I have had difficulty getting DSL to start using loadlin, except on a Win 98 machine
where Windows is started with "F8", then using choice 6. This is hard to do, so I use System Commander to start Windows 98, and then the "F8" works every time.
If the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys are allowed to run, then loadlin will not fully work, I get all kinds of problems, usually a blank screen and unresponsive DSL at that point, leading to a reboot as only way out. (Turn box off, and turn back on).
I tried just using a Windows 98 boot floppy, and that didn't work either.
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Only way I can get a /knoppix to get discovered and run is with a boot floppy.
(I'm using 0.6.2) Or, with a complicated Windows 98 startup "F8", almost too much
trouble.
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I tried the dsl-hdinstall and that mostly fails to get all the way through to a
booted up X. Sometimes, lilo won't run on some boxes, even with a small
420 MB HDD, for instance. I can do a hard drive install of Redhat 6.1, for
instance on the same box and HDD, and it will work. Too many lilo perameters
in the dsl-hdinstall script, and I cannot edit them out and then run "lilo" to
correct it, if I boot from the CD, and try and fix the hdd install.
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So, I am always having to use a boot floppy! (Or run from the CD, like I am
supposed to)
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