So, I have a Windows 98 laptop wiht 64 MB of RAM, and I'm experimenting with Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

The first of my problems was creating a bootable CD, since most Windows CD burner software packages won't do it. We finally succeeded by using my stepson's computer, which has Ubuntu.

Puppy Linux was intolerably slow on the CD drive, so I installed it on the hard drive while still booting from a CD. It worked pretty well, but I can't get the Internet browser to stop crashing or freezing.

So, now I'm trying DSL. I get a lot of action at first, but then things stop at this line:

xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.xauthority

Any advice what to do next?

-Joe-