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- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: boot problem
- Replies: 8
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Re: boot problem
There are several small Linux distributions that may run on the older machine with satisfactory speed. SliTaz , Puppy Linux , and TinyCore come to mind -- there are certainly more. All of them have a graphical user interface. The live ISOs are between 10 MB and, I believe, 100 MB. The first in my l...
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:55 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: boot problem
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6704
Re: boot problem
Hi Marty did try your suggestion and ran Fedora LXDE Spin, this didn't run either it also calls for i686 processor thanks for helpingMarty Jack wrote:Run a real distribution like Lubuntu or Fedora LXDE Spin or OpenSUSE LXDE. These are up to date and will be serviceable.
Brian
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: boot problem
- Replies: 8
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Re: boot problem
Although it has "i386" in its name, the live CD seems to need an "i686" processor or better. It's a known bug since, whow, more than one year now -- see this thread: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=560 . In other words, your older machine is too old for the Live CD. Hi Fra...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:17 am
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: boot problem
- Replies: 8
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boot problem
hello , I'm a newbie to Lxde, and have downloaded debian-live 506-i386 lxde-destop, the live CD works fine on a newer computer but when I tried to boot on an older machine it starts to boot and then shows the following message this kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU ---&qu...