need a distro that boots fast and supports madwifi

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:07 am

can anyone suggest anything, i'm stuck using the crappy pc in the student center right now because it takes my p3 700mhz with 128mb ram laptop 6 minutes to boot ubuntu with gnome and kde removed and the kernal compiled for p3 with openbox as my wm

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:40 am

Uh, you have some major issues if it takes 6 minutes to boot. I can boot Ubuntu in a bit over a minute on a Pentium II 366mhz with 160MB memory.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:35 pm

Ummm, check with dsl. It should boot faster and you could probably get the drivers from somewhere if they are not automatically configured.

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:45 pm

thanks i installed dsl it takes about 1 minute to boot
and it looks like my wireless card works (it detects it but i'm not near a hotspot so i cant test it)

chozen2 · Post by **chozen2** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:10 pm

Kanotix!

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:25 am

chrisfbt1 wrote:thanks i installed dsl it takes about 1 minute to boot
and it looks like my wireless card works (it detects it but i'm not near a hotspot so i cant test it)

maybe not ....
after trying to install anything with synaptic it removes everything and breaks the system

this happened twice installing completely different packages

apt-get works fine though

i'll try kanotix next though thanks

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:20 pm

ummm, you need to install the dsl-dpkg extension before you try installing stuff. That is because dsl does not include dpkg. Just ask at the forums there.

In fact, I am making custom dsl cds. I have sent one to a ceratin forum member (it came back as returned because I messed up on the state), and I think it would work just adding one thing. I will see about making one for you and uploading it somewhere so you can download (ONCE!) and burn.

chozen2 · Post by **chozen2** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:04 pm

I'll host it if you bring me the cd... I have plenty of bandwidth.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:57 pm

So do I.

I will have it up by wednesday, christfbt1. Any customizations (from the mydsl repository) that you would like, lemme know.

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:27 pm

thanks for the help
I actually figured it out and am very happy with dsl

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:37 pm

Oh lol, I never actually got it up. Lol. I was having problems just adding dsl-dpkg. It ket giving me coasters. It kept screaming that I did not have rights to the knoppix drive, and so it did not correctly copy the iso over. Sorry about that.