| James Barrett on 4 Dec 2007 00:29:34 -0000 |
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:56:40PM -0500, Doug Crompton wrote: > Anyone have an ideas on this? > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Doug Crompton wrote: > > > I am still playing with this Hitahi laptop - 32 meg ram and 1 GB hardrive. > > > > I kinda gave up on DSL and Kunbuntu. They both just seem to hang after it > > gets most of the way through the boot. Kubuntu will never run on a machine with only 32 MB of RAM. If there is a way to do so, try running DSL in runlevel 2 (or otherwise without a GUI). > > I loaded slackware 12.0 and it works better but still will not boot. I am > > using lilo and installing to the MBR. I have a 64 meg swap partition and > > the rest is one partition for linux - about 1gb. snip... > > Any ideas? Try an older version of a stable distro. Debian sarge might be a nice fit. Install with a netboot CD; install the base system and nothing else (do not select any packages for installation). Even if the machine does not have network access, the netboot CD can still install the base system. I had to test and install on an old machine with a ~200 MHz PII processor. A very recent version of Knoppix (with a 2.6 kernel) would not boot no matter what I tried, but an older version with a 2.4 kernel booted with no problems on the first try. Sarge comes with a 2.4 kernel. Without knowing what you plan on doing with the machine (but guessing that you most likely do not want to use it for running services ), I would hope that it has little or nothing to do with a GUI considering the hardware involved. > > The same kernel (I think) boots fine from CD - called huge.s Slackware 12.0 uses a 2.6 kernel. Attachment:
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