I have had old computers run the CD just fine and then the default
install set the screen resolution to high. No mode is supposed to solve
that problem but doesn't always.
This is actually an intell M processor.
On 12-11-10 02:23 AM, Jack Chastain wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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.
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