Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-17 Thread Iberê Fernandes
in line answers... 2013/6/17 Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.com Hello, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Iberê Fernandes ibere.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hardware has been cleaned and Ubuntu 10.04 is installed again. Obviously, that lead me to a guess that it is a Kernel Issue or

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 18:22, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Next weekend I'll try Lubuntu 10.04 on that desktop. When you do, can you run 'lspci' in a terminal and post the results. It should look something like:- ~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-17 Thread Iberê Fernandes
2013/6/17 Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com On 17/06/13 18:22, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Next weekend I'll try Lubuntu 10.04 on that desktop. When you do, can you run 'lspci' in a terminal and post the results. It should look something like:- ~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-06-16 07:40, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Hi there! I had Ubuntu 10.04 LTs installed on my desktop AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM. According to cat/proc/cpuinfo it supports PAE. This desktop has been turned off for 2 years and now I decided to install Lubuntu there. Before start

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Iberê Fernandes
2013/6/16 Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com Hi Iberę, I don't know why this happens for you, but I have a few tips and work-arounds. 1. Is there a good swap partition on the internal HDD? If not, make one with gparted, when running a live session of for example Ubuntu 10.04 or Lubuntu

Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Eric Bradshaw
Iber? I've installed Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 on many different AMD powered machines and there is nothing wrong with that combo as far as I can tell. 1GB RAM should be plenty. Nio's suggestions were all great and quite detailed. One thing I'd like to add is I

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
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

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 06:40 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: One thing I'd like to add is I don't mess with the 64bit installers - there is nothing wrong with installing a 32bit Lubuntu on a 64bit machine and (for me) makes it easier going forward. Can you explain why? What is the issue with the 64bit

Ease of 32bit vs 64bit installation (was: Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes )

2013-06-16 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/16/2013 09:15 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: On 06/16/2013 08:39 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/16/2013 06:40 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: One thing I'd like to add is I don't mess with the 64bit installers - there is nothing wrong with installing a 32bit Lubuntu on a 64bit machine and (for