It isn't THAT old (386!!) - IIRC, it's an P5, and it runs the LiveCD just fine - so I believe Ubuntu should run on it once I get the disks worked out properly.
Unfortunately though, it appears either work is blocking the appropriate Dell site, or it is down - so I can't confirm the hardware yet. Sigh. Once this long Solaris SAN migration completes, I can head home and do some REAL work - instead of this stuff I get paid for. (Which, I might add, is supposed to include RHEL, at which I pretty much suck, so it is kind of embarrassing that I need to ask all this in the first place. Sigh.) JC On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > If your system is that old, you might find your best desktop to be > LXDE. Lubuntu is a good distro of it. It's a little rough cut but it runs > like the wind. The system that I am using originally had XP service pack > one in it. If you get kernel panic when you try to boot up, it's because > your old system is a 386 processor. If you want another desktop, put > Lubuntu in it if you have trouble and then use the synaptic package > manager to get KDE or Xubuntu into it. If you pick KDE, disable the > desktop effects because chances are your system can't handle them. If it > keeps coming off like you have a bad install, with your task bar > disappearing, etc, or it hangs, then your system can't handle distros > designed for a 686. The only Ubuntu distro that will work with an old > system is Lubuntu. > > Mark > > > > > On 12-11-09 10:10 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: > > Thanks all - I think Chris may have the correct analysis. This third-shift > work makes it miserable for me to try anything in a reasonable frame, but I > will give this a shot soon. > > I believe based on the way things were installed that Chris is reading it > right - I don't understand why the external USB-based disk was the only one > I was offered (I tried a few times to insure I didn't have a list of three > drives - I did not, however, with the system up, fdisk clearly sees the > other drives) but there you go. > > My impression is that - for some reason - Ubuntu installed itself to the > drive that is not available until the drives for that drive are made > available - after boot. Live and learn. Or not. > > The system si a quite old Dell - I think it is maybe going on 10 years now > - and last night, I just got tired of the gradual and continual slowdown of > the system. I figured the only thing it really has is Visio, so I would > replace the (even older?) laptop and see if I couldn't squeak out a little > more performance. Silly me. > > Unfortunately, now I am at work in White Plains and won't be home until > about 0600 - I guess I will get to play then. For now, off to do some > reading. > > JC > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Friday, November 09, 2012 05:30:24 PM Matthias Johnson wrote: >> > Chris, >> > >> > You may be correct but if the internal drive wasnt mountable how would >> it >> > install anything to it? >> > >> > Matthias >> >> When Grub2 installs the boot sector portion of the boot loader into the >> MBR, >> it does that on the raw device (such as /dev/sda), not a filesystem. >> When it >> installs the /rest/ of Grub2 -- the configuration, modules, etc -- that's >> done >> on a mounted filesystem. >> >> -- >> >> -- Chris >> >> Chris Knadle >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College >> Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel >> Jan 9 - High Performance Computing >> Feb 6 - February Meeting >> > > > > -- > Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. > > Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. > Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.orghttp://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing > Feb 6 - February Meeting > > > > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > PO Box 11144 > Newburgh, NY 12552-1114 > Telephone:(845)-541-7396 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing > Feb 6 - February Meeting > > -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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