Lightweight disto problem any ideas ?

fester · 16 Jun 2008 at 23:13

Hi am having problems getting dsl(and dsln) or puppy(and puplets) linux on the signature computer to fully boot any ideas what's wrong ?

NicNac · 16 Jun 2008 at 23:20

why do you need a lightweight distro in the first place?

why doesnt it boot what errors are you getting? that will help us a little more

fester · 16 Jun 2008 at 23:41

NicNac said:
why do you need a lightweight distro in the first place?

why doesnt it boot what errors are you getting? that will help us a little more

Hi I was trying to make a bootable usb keydrive to salvage files and document's form friend's and family computers when they go bad ie bsod.

The dsl boots half way and then drops to a "very limited shell " because it can't find the cd where as the Puppy just locks up half way thought .

NicNac · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:15

Try this its specially made to run from a pendrive. sounds like you didnt setup the usb bit of dsl/puppy right to me

Pendrive linux

fester · 17 Jun 2008 at 19:26

NicNac said:
Try this its specially made to run from a pendrive. sounds like you didnt setup the usb bit of dsl/puppy right to me

Pendrive linux

Sorry I might not have put that very clearly I can't even get the cd to finish booting in to the ram.

Minto · 18 Jun 2008 at 14:36

perhaps a bad cd image, or burn?
Did you md5 sum the iso, or run any sort of disk check?

fester · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:51

Minto said:
perhaps a bad cd image, or burn?
Did you md5 sum the iso, or run any sort of disk check?

Tried all those things even tried the the pen dive linux above and get a similar error to the dsl linux then freezes.
insmod: can't read 'unionfs.ko': No such file of directory Failed to load unionfs module Loading /initrd/bin/ash

Could this be sum thing to do the the motherboard as the only flavor of linux I got to work is ubuntu 8.04. the chipset is p35/ICH9R jm micron Ide ?

Una · 19 Jun 2008 at 19:46

fester said:
Tried all those things even tried the the pen dive linux above and get a similar error to the dsl linux then freezes.
insmod: can't read 'unionfs.ko': No such file of directory Failed to load unionfs module Loading /initrd/bin/ash

Could this be sum thing to do the the motherboard as the only flavor of linux I got to work is ubuntu 8.04. the chipset is p35/ICH9R jm micron Ide ?

No, its failing to insert the module into the kernel from the location because unionfs.ko does not exist. Sounds to me like the filesystem mounts/directory structure is wrong. Check you have followed the install steps correctly.