Video problem on Toshiba 2180CDS solved

[Husse]

The error is
(EE) S3VIRGE

Absolutely
This is an old not very good graphics chip (unless it's being produced again, but I have not heard that)
It can be a bad CD - did you check the md5sum and burned as slow as possible?
Did you try compatibility mode? (Press any key during the count down right in the beginning)

[rivenought]

I saw a thread, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5517676, over at Ubuntu that mentioned something similar to your problem. I did a Google search on "(EE) S3 VIRGE" and found plenty of hits. You may wish to try that method and see if you can sort it out. Good luck.

[Husse]

It's always good to tell what you know about hard- and software
196 MB is enough to run Fluxbox and possibly XFCE but not to install - and if there was a XP live CD it would have been way too little
The ting you can do is to use a really low resource distro like knoppix to create a swap partition. This will then be used by the Live CD and perhaps it will work

[Husse]

Good - but you should have put the swap at the beginning of the disk so you get the fastest part for swap