2013/6/16 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> > On 06/15/2013 10:40 PM, Iberê Fernandes wrote: > > > This desktop has been turned off for 2 years ... > > > Although it has 1GB RAM, lubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso crashes when on > > slideshow. ... > > > Any ideas what else should I do to install Lubuntu on this AMD desktop? > > Sounds like a hardware issue to me. I would carefully blow out all the > dust that collected in those 2 years, and then boot from CD and run > memtest for several hours (maybe 24 hours) to check for intermittent RAM > issues. I would also look carefully at all capacitors on the > motherboard to see if any have expanded or "blown" (got a hole in them), > which can happen to older motherboards, some electrolytic capacitors > used in that era were not always high quality and can dry out and then > stop doing their job, making the machine unstable. If the board has the > capacitor issue, it is basically impractical to repair it. > > If you think the issue is with the installer and not with the hardware, > you could put it on the Internet (behind a firewall router) and then > update it (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade), reboot, and try > upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 with > > sudo do-release-upgrade > > and see if that works. If it does, you could then do the same thing > again to get from there to 12.10 if you want to run 12.10. > > Jonathan > > I'd like to thank you everybody that replied to help.
The beauty of Linux is that together we learn a lot from each other. Hardware has been cleaned and Ubuntu 10.04 is installed again. Somehow I did not manage to install neither Lubuntu 12.04 nor Lubuntu 12.10. All ISOs and all burned CDs were double checked with: md5sum -c md5sum.txt | grep -v "SUCESSO" (SUCESSO means success because I'm running Lubuntu in portuguese from a laptop). Thank you for Leszek Lesner for prompting that booting from USB should be possible from every computer that has a usb connection. I did not know that. Next weekend I'll connect that desktop in a firewalled router in order to clean that Ubuntu installation and transform into Lubuntu 12.04. Cheers, Iberê
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