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Hello everybody
I am looking for a light distro for my wife's old machine, a Compaq presario 714EA
CPU: AMD Duron at 996 Mhz
RAM: 384 MB
VRAM :32MB shared
I try to run a slitaz 4.0 stable live cd ,but after asking me to choose language and the keyboard then it turns to a black screen and no further loading occurs.
Any suggestions ?
I have already tried the live cd in a few other laptops (more modern I admit) and all running more than fine so the cd is ok
In the same old laptop I've tried with success "Puppy" and "Simplicity" distros but when I tried Slitaz on my other old machine (presario 2126EA ,celeron 2Ghz,768MB RAM) I was very impressed of the lightness so I thought to give a try on the much older 714EA
Thank you in advance for your kind attention
Nikolaus
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Update
I am trying Slitaz 5.0 RC2 Live CD and evrything seems to to work better than fine , web surfing is by far faster than "windows era" on this very old ,ancient maybe, laptop of mine .
The only answer is how can I have flash playing , not big things just you tube or a web radio is a OK for me
Have in mind that I am an absolute newbie as far as linux programming is concerned 
Nikolaus
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http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:flash
and dont use RC2 - use rolling
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso
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Install it as a full Linux installation on your hard disk! Slitaz needs really only minimal partition size for it depending of your choice of applications (if you opt for LibreOffice + full development tools, you need of course a bit more ;-) ! but if you install only the http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core.iso - version, you really need only a little hard disk room. if your wife will write some letters or scan, you can add abiword, xsane, and mplayer for media. don't flashplayer and java!
as your old CD start until dialogs appears, you can select "web" install in the command line immediately after start. on my PC's slitaz 4.0 did not work in Xwindow but only in command line (hm... interessant but not really usefull today!). Slitaz 5.0 works perfect in Xwindow on 3 PC's (2 32 bit, one 64 bit). if you can login as "root", password "root", download out the running web installation running in RAM the above ISO and install it manually onto your harddisk following the step by step recommandations at http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation#manual-by-hand-installation ;-). else it is command line job, it is really very easy...
...and works!
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Thank you guys ,
I'll install the full package since there are 15GB available on the HDD and my wife is doing only office work (simple docs and spredsheets), as far as storage is concerned there are a few much bigger external hard disks as well.
I'll post again after installation :-)
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Hi nik0laus
15 GB are great (I thing about all SliTaz and a lot of personal doc's can be use easily there; it is enough for SliTaz, it would be enough for Kubuntu or Debian8)!
Steps:
- start as you did explain above
- at the commando line dialog step a few seconds later select F1 (to see the options) or directly "web"
- the web start can be a question of patience... don't renounce to early (I need sometime about 1/2 h to start a new web install ;-(( ... but as long you see points appear on the screen long minutes after long minutes, you can hope! from what it is depending? I don't know... If you have a dog, go with it for the daily walk and come after it is finish ;-) ...)
- if you have luck as you are again at home you see on the graphic screen an invite "Login" and proposed "tux" as user, he doesn't need some password, simply "enter"
- you are in a fresh SliTaz running in RAM, version according the selection you did made in the dialog following the commando line entry "web" immediately after start.
- if you see a text mode login, you also can continue but will probably encountre some supplementary problems, I am sorry ;-) ...
depending what happens (real graphic mode or commando line) the next steps can be different...
I hope real graphic mode for you ;-) ...
You can use gparted (applications > system tools >> gparted) to make you 15 GB usable by the new installation (format it as journalized partition: ext3 or ext4). I assume here as example it is partition 5 (the first partition in the extended partition, only an example, you can use what you want!)
If you did select the new slitaz-rolling-core.iso I did link in my precedent message, download it again directly into the partition 5 (I repeat: only example!!!):
mkdir /mnt/sda5
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
cd /mnt/sda5
wget http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling-core.iso
why (you are in slitaz-rolling-core!)? yes, you are in it but the kernel is already started and not accessible any more in the entirely in RAM running system :-) so you need to download a file containing the kernel :-) ...
and after that follow (but adapt them!) the steps describded in my second link out the version in you own language, it is more easy ;-) ...
1. extract and Install a copy of the kernel in the new /boot of the new partition
2. extract and Install all the rest in the root of the root of the new partition
3. adapt you boot loader (you did not indicate which one you are using but above page includes a good tutor for the installation so I suppose that that will end with success)
4. reboot as "tux" without password or as "root" with password "root"
alternatively
you can make all that steps in the comfortable environment of the graphical Slitaz Installer. "tux" loose here the ability don't to have to use some password and did require you enter some one. so, you, yourself, know the password you did give for both "root" and "tux" or possibly an other user (can be a cause of difficulties: I did create an other user, the same as in my other linux partitions... and it doesn't not word! for this reason I prefer to install manually!)
good luck!
and let us know if you have success...
kind regards
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Everything is a OK
Thanks to Slitaz and your help I have a "new" laptop now for my wife
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