At a Laptop med 1.7 GHz, 256 MB RAM laptop (Medion) with shared ram for the Graphics.
With the LinuxMint 8 LXDE it is a pain to run.
Can you suggest a distro with a decent GUI that can work on the laptop?
Best if it has a LiveCD that can be testet before installing.
The laptop has a DVD drive to install from.
I want to install linux on my desktop which already has xp and my RAM is 256MB so which smaller version to install to learn basics of linux..is it slackware
View 5 Replies View RelatedAs the name says it all, how can i install my ATI radeon 9250 pci video card in ubuntu? i'd like to be able to use this with high screen res and compiz-fusion in place of my crappy on board video gpu.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI decided to upgrade an old box I use as a server at home. I had been running F8, but after it's end of life and numerous patches since then it was getting a little shaky. I downloaded the KDE Live CD (picked that arbitrarily really since I don't run X on this box - just didn't want to do the whole install over the net) and off I go.
So I booted the CD and added "liveinst" as a boot loader option to kick off the install without starting X and KDE. Just as Anaconda was starting, I got the message "there is not enough memory for a graphical install" and the text based installer starts up. Kinda strange, I thought, since this box had the "recommended" amount of ram mentioned in the F12 release notes. Oh well, so their docs are wrong - wouldn't be the first time and anyway I'm used to doing text based installs from way back.
But this one wasn't like any I'd seen before. After the welcome screen there were only 4 questions - keyboard type, language, timezone, and disk options. Also, at various stages odd characters similar to the Russian alphabet started popping up in various areas on the screen. When it got to the disk options there were 3 - use entire drive, replace existing linux install, and use free space. I picked the 2nd one and moved on. The next screen said my choice was about to be written to disk blah blah blah - but gave me no option to specifiy which partitions to use or how to use them. I should mention here that this box had 3 partitions on it - 1 for swap, 1 for root, and 1 for var...........
How do I set up a 256mb ramdisk on opensuse 11.3 x86_64 ? - The /boot/grub/menu.lst content reads as:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Aug 30 11:33:28 EST 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
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I didn't found working driver for my card yet. Using OpenSUSE 11.2 KDE, Motherboard MSI 648F Neo, Pentium4 2.8GHz, 2 x 1GB DDR.I've found, that my card should be supported according to HCL/ATI Video Cards - openSUSEInstallation following ATI drivers - openSUSE Easy Way didn't work because of chcecksum difference (x11-video-fglrxG02), Repositary Way too. Hard Way Installation resulted to disability of Graphic Environment and I wasn't able to fix that (finally, I somehow get running KDE, but Kwin always broke down, so system was unuseful).
I also tried packages found by Software search (Software.openSUSE.org), so package 'xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd' but nothing works for me, some of them provide result of "glxingo | grep direct" -> "No", some of them "Yes", but in this case I wasn't able to run "glxgears", because of error "drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info." Desktop Effects I cannot run anyway. how to get graphic acceleration working. It will be great if is here someone with exactly same, or similar card, he could write a step-by-step guide to do that. Starting with fresh installation of OpenSUSE (not corrupted by my previous tries) is not problem.
I am installing Ubuntu Server 10.10 on and old Dell Laptop. The network connection is an Xircom PCMCIA card.During install, the computer sees and interacts via the network just fine. For example, I can ping the gateway. Also, the command "lspcmcia" works and show the Xircom card.When I reboot, however, there is no network access, and the "lspcmcia" command is not there. When I try "lspcmcia" the OS helpfully tells me that I can "apt-get" pcmciautils, but, without network access, that fails.I tried adding the install cdrom to apt using "apt-cdrom" and then tried to "apt-get" pcmciautils and it got further, installing some dependencies, but acted like it still was unable to locate the pcmciautils package.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using an HCL k38 pdc laptop and I am unable to boot KDE live cd of opensuse 11.4. The system boots to a graphical screen where a progress bar is shown. the progress bar proceeds to about 90% and then my system hangs. ALl I can see on my screen is that graphical image with suse logo and progress bar. Though my mouse works and I can move it all around the desktop but if I try pressing any key (CAPS/NUM LOCK/SCROLL LOCK) i dont see any LED notification for that. this concludes that the system is hanged.
Key board has no issue as I can use it in Windows.
I tried to boot the lice cd in text mode and it worked very fine from there I installed the system on to my HDD in dual boot mode with windows XP. But after installation when I boot opensuse from HDD it stucks at the same position.
I think this issue is with Nvidea graphics card as when the system boots I see an error message that says that the RAM has an address conflict with VGA ROM.
How can I use opensuse. I have even tried ubuntu 10.10 but it also hangs while booting or after booting. So far I have been able to manage only Sabayon Linux working on this machine however the ubuntu 9.10 was working on this system and it also started behaving similarly after I upgraded it to ubuntu 10.04.
I downloaded the 6.06 version of xubuntu because i have a laptop that doesnt support high graphics mode, and i wasnt able to figure out how to get it to run in low graphics mode. i figured that i would get a version from a while back, and then update it up to the current version. now, to the problem. I was able to upgrade 6.10, but now it says Ubuntu version 8.04 available, so i tried to update it. it gets most of the way through the part where it says calculating or something like that, and then it says: "Can't install 'xubuntu-desktop' It was impossible to install a required package. Please report this as a bug." with an option that says close at the bottom. when i click close another window pops up that says: Could not calculate the upgrade A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport. Then the window just closes... anything that i could do to get rid of this problem? EDIT: Is there any way to update directly from an .iso file on the desktop?
For starters, I have a Dell E1505/6400.I had Win XP but it crashed my hard drive, so I installed Ubuntu. After that install, I decided I wanted to change to OpenSuse, so I downloaded the 4.6 Gig .iso file. Downloaded fine, and I burned in ImgBurn...no problems with it. So I popped the DVD into my laptop, hit F12 so I could boot from DVD drive, but the DVD isn't recognized. It goes straight into Ubuntu, and when Ubuntu starts up, it shows up as a blank DVD+R. (That was the 2nd time I burned it, the 1st DVD I burned had the same results.)
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow to install ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop but im a little caught up between using the wubi or full install heres my dilemma.I like the wubi but it doesn't support hibernation and from doing some reading it is not as stable and has some loss in performance.
The main issue I have with doing the full install is I'm a little concerned that making new partitions may screw up the recovery partition which I find really useful which lets me easily reformat my laptop without having to deal with all the drivers.So my real question here is twofold. Is there a way to still hibernate in wubi? And is the full install that much more stable and faster?Second should the recovery partition be ok if i later decide to start fresh again in the future?
I want to install Fedora 64 bit to my laptop which has Win xp 32. Now I want to install a virtual machine on it.
What I need is what kind of software to be selected(Fedora and VM)?
i have a small compaq mini (with xp)which i would like to use as my linux education shuttle is there a way to install without cd
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have no FD or DVD-Drive. But I do have a extra laptop HD with nothing on it. Can I install from the laptop HD to another HD? btw I am currently running windows on this HD.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to install CentOS on my laptop which version, whether live CD or USB boot is feasible.
My Current System Information is as follows.
OS: Windows 7 Professional
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 2.27GHz, 2262 MHz, 2Core(s)
System Type: X86 Based PC
RAM: 4GB
I intend to learn Linux, i know the basic commands and i am a power user who came from windows and also learning C on a virtual machine ( using ubuntu) provided by the intro course ( URL.,, ) and through my reading in this forum/blogs most of the people said if you want to learn Linux go for slackware, so.... Question One: is it possible to install it on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 1545) by that i mean working sound/wireless/touchpad?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just want to install debian on mine laptop.
here is mine system configrationhttp://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:8FAQGq76ttsJ:www.hclinfosystems.com/9100%2520BT.pdf+hcl+lx+infiniti+powerlite+9100+bt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&client=firefox-a
so i want to download the iso image which one i have to download and write.
I have two laptops at home and they are both running fedora 13. Now the problem that i am facing is that the internet over here is a bit expensive and downloading the same updates for both laptops becomes bandwith intensive. Can i update one laptop and update the other laptop from the first one? Do i have to install some server that would act as a repo?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am willing to install fedora 15 in a 32 bit laptop. My laptop has Getforce 9300M nvidia graphics card. I would like to know if there is any automatic way to install the graphics driver with fedora 15. If yes please provide me the information.
Why i am interested to know is that previously when i was using a earlier version of fedora11 i guess, people in the forum suggested me to download the driver from the nvidia site and install it. It was really painful to install the driver in that way.
I've recently switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse/GNOME, and I'm trying to install grdesktop in my laptop. - I searched it in SoftwareManagement and couldn't find it (I enabled packman, and other repos). - I tried zypper intall grdesktop (but it's the same problem)
- I downloaded the source from grdesktop's website, tar, ./configure shows this error :
checking for libgnomeui-2.0... configure: error: cannot find GNOME2 2.0! zypper install libgnomeui gives this: No update candidate for 'libgnomeui-2.24.4-2.1.i586'. The highest available version is already installed. and I'm running Gnome Version: 2.32.1 as my DEI'm not sure what to do now?
I am running 11.2 on my Toshiba laptop with Celeron M CPU and 2 GB RAM. Should I fresh install 11.3?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with opensuse grub - it cannot see other distros on my laptop (Ubuntu and Mint) and the original grup got glitchy when I recovered it (I couldnt reinstall it with terminal, so I used rescatux to recover it, but I couldnt update it). It works with windows. Is it some kind of bug or osuse isnt compatible with other distros?opensuse: 11.4 64 bit
View 8 Replies View RelatedWubi can't retrieve the netbook versions... any fix for this? I really don't want to use anything else but wubi. I used it on my desktop, and it was straightforward and I really prefer it (it's pretty much the only reason i'm putting linux on here lol)
I'm getting an error, it says: an error occured: Cannot download the metalink and therefore the ISO
portion of the log:
Code:
I am trying to install 10.04 with a cd on a laptop. But when it get to the point where the setup box should appear, where you put in user name and password, it just continues running a screen with a ubuntu background and the curser just keeps flickering.
View 4 Replies View Relatedcan i install a ssh server to ssh into someones computer if they have a laptop since the ip would be changing somewhat often?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently bought my self a Acer aspire 5552G, and now I'm trying to get the latest Ubuntu on it. I put the ubuntu on a USB drive and inserted it to my laptop. I changed boot orders so that all USB devices would come first. Now if I changed only one USB device to boot first (the one where my USB was inserter, as it indicated it had SanDisc in it) It didn't do anything, it still booted up the Linpus linux ditro wich was installed on the laptop when I got it. It has no GUI and I can't do anything with it.
If I changed all USB devices to the top list of booting, the laptop started and then a text comes on the screen :
SYSLINUX 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al.
And now it just stays like that and no matter what I press, nothing happens.
A few days back, I burned a CD with Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick?). Have since installed 10.10 on an old desktop (pentium ii, 1.15 ghz) and it boots up ok - (apart from a 'freeze' issue which varies from 10 mins to 2 1/2 hours) Anyway, my immediate problem is I'm using the SAME CD to install 10.10 on a AMD Athlon laptop (which previously ran Windows XP). The installation process starts with the usual: TRY/INSTALL screen - I select INSTALL. The whole process runs for about 40 mins, using the entire 60gb drive (I've got rid of XP). The final few messages are: 'installing system', 'copying installation logs' 'installation complete' - 'restart now'. So, the CD is ejected after which I get a string of '2380 nnnnnn i/o error device sector 533280'messages. Then, 'will now restart' At the restart, up comes the UBUNTU screen and the intro clip...and there it stays. My question, does anybody know what could be happening - if anything?? Remembering that this CD was installed on the desktop.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a HP Pavilion dv9000 that I had an older version of Ubuntu on. I wanted to install 11.04 which I have installed on my two desktop computer. The live CD work great and I wanted to install. I clicked on other to install in the hard drive where the old version was and every thing went well until I got to the page were it asked about (who you are) I put in my name and password and clicked on log in without password and then could not click on the forward button. It looked like everything loaded OK as it went and downloaded all the update files.
That was as far as I could go on the install. The CD was a 32 bit version but the computer is a 64 bit AMD. My desk top are AMD chip set also and it installed OK on them.
I tried to install screenlets for my 11.04 ubuntu laptop so i typed in HTML Code: sudo apt-get install screenlets then the output was:
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I've been trying to install Ubuntu 11.04 into a laptop where the Windows OS was... quite FUBAR. And, when I try to load Ubuntu from a flash drive, this comes up.
cp: can't create '/root/var/log]: Is a directory
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such filed or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg