Help installing Toplogilinux 5 on XP Home

[Garibaldi]

I had topo 4, uninstalled and installed 5 first with real mode. I got through the setup but for some reason it never asked me for the 2nd disk, oh well I'll just use XFCE. Anyway, I then went through the setup and then started it up in real mode for the first time. It got all the way to before the log in screen (its a screen with a bunch of black lines through it- a lattice). It would just sit there forever, I could move my mouse and everything but it just seemed stuck.

I then reinstalled and tried the colinux way. I got all through that and it did recongnize and install my cd but it did have one error with Gnome but that is fine because I can just use KDE. So I finally got through setup and tried booting from colinux. It loads up part way and then gives me this error:

I tried the VNC X version but I couldn't get that to connect.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Garibaldi

[Garibaldi]

Alright, I still cannot get colinux to work but I did manage to get real mode working. Now, I cannot access the internet. I tried doing the network config during setup and I think that I did everything right, would my domain just be my ip server (ie msn.com or tds.net)? I have a dsl connection. I installed TAP, but that shouldn't come into play since windows isn't running in real mode.

[garryward]

Hi Guys just installed this lasted night , over winxp ,god I wish windows went in so quick. anyway make sure you follow the net work bit as it does need to be set up correctley. Iam using Topogilinux now run in Windows XP to type this

[Garibaldi]

Hi Guys just installed this lasted night , over winxp ,god I wish windows went in so quick. anyway make sure you follow the net work bit as it does need to be set up correctley. Iam using Topogilinux now run in Windows XP to type this

I actually switched to a real Slackware 10.0 install a couple months ago and then swareted up to 10.1 when it came out. Yeah Topo is nice but you can have some random problems in it, but its still a great distro. Networking is tricky, I would recommend netgo (google it) to help you get setup. I had a whole bunch of trouble in topo but then when I installed slackware it recognized it immediately. I have had quite a bit of experience with topo so if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!