OKay, so i think i might know why none of this is working.... this laptop has something call Safeguard Easy v4.30.1, apparently its a data encryption program... anyway i can get rid of that? Im gonna try just removing the hard drive and see if i can run DSL from the flash drive, because its not working now
Okay, i disconnected the hard drive, and still, when i try to boot with DSL, it says "xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority" then "giving up" and "xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to x server"
and "xinit: no such process (errno3): server error"
WTF?! this is frustrating!
OKAY! So i got lucid puppy to work without the hard drive attached. Now im gonna reattach the hard drive, see if it works, and im downloading crunchbang, and im gonna see if it will work. If so, ill probably use crunchbang. Wish me luck!
Crunchbang works as well! Thanks for all your help. Im gonna wipe the hard drive, then install either puppy or crunchbang, im still deciding which one i like better. I wish i had two flash drives!