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by bwwoods
Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:29 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: boot problem
Replies: 8
Views: 6704

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...
by bwwoods
Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:55 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: boot problem
Replies: 8
Views: 6704

Re: boot problem

Marty Jack wrote:Run a real distribution like Lubuntu or Fedora LXDE Spin or OpenSUSE LXDE. These are up to date and will be serviceable.
Hi Marty did try your suggestion and ran Fedora LXDE Spin, this didn't run either it also calls for i686 processor thanks for helping
Brian
by bwwoods
Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:49 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: boot problem
Replies: 8
Views: 6704

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...
by bwwoods
Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:17 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: boot problem
Replies: 8
Views: 6704

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...