Re: Booting Fiesty on old hardware

On 2007-09-30, Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 09/30/2007 08:15 AM, Frank Stutzman wrote:
SINNER <99nesorjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How about get a more appropriate distribution for your hardware? Go with
a vanilla debian install.

What specifically is inappropriate about my choice of distribution?
I've seen referances to Ubuntu working on even lower spec machines (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems).

I must confess a preferance for ubuntu simply because I'm a bit lazy
with the setting up of a LAMP server.

In any case, I got the installation done, but something is going wrong
with the booting and I'm looking for some suggestions on how to diagnose
it.

I did download the debian netinst CD and will try it if I don't get
any better suggestions, but I strongly suspect that my problem is
pretty much distribution independant.

Try Knoppix, to test your hardware and, or memory; if all is file try
booting Ubuntu with acpi=off option.

Or, since you are using old hardware with not much memory, try Damn
Small Linux.
.

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