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Installation on old PC

Hi,

I have looking a Linux distro which will work on my ancient laptop. I've make some research and here I'm with shiny loram v4.0 image.

My laptop is junk with Pentium III 700MHz, 64MB RAM and 10GB IDE HDD. Have broken ODD and cannot boot from USB from any type of device (but I have two USB 1.1 port). So, the problem is that I have working only boot from FDD and HDD (I have made converter from 40pin to 20pin ATA, so I can connect to other computer which I have if needed).

Reading guide's and faq's I'm a little lost. I want install Slitaz pernament on my HDD (no live cd/usb) to boot it in future from it, and of course to write on it changes (cfg files, my files etc). I really want avoid swaping tons of floopy disks.

What should I do? I was think about two solutions, something like this:

1.)

a. Making i.e two partitions on HDD and on sda2 droping unpacked iso.

b. Booting GRUB from floppy disc and launch distro on sda2.

c. After booting Slitaz livecd from sda2, installing it on sda1.

2.)

a. Installing Slitaz on this HDD on different computer.

b. Attach it to my laptop and having looooong evening fighting with drivers.

How can I achieve this (i.e option no.1, if this is possible of course)?

Sorry for my broken English.

searchfgold6789

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Registered: 2011-09-13

Posts: 41

Re: Installation on old PC

Go with Option 2. You won't have to fight with drivers. The drivers are not "installed" during setup of the operating system, rather they are detected and loaded every time you boot. This makes it extremely easy to install onto the hard disk from on one computer, and then boot from the same hard disk using another set of hardware.

Guest

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Re: Installation on old PC

On my main computer (M4A88TD-M EVO, AMD Athlon II X2 250, 8GB RAM) I've got a kernel panic:

[c]PID:1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.37-slitaz #2

Call Trace:
[<c1378112>]? printk + 0xf/0x11
[<c1378008>]? panic + 0x50/0x14b
[<102c7d8>]?  do_exit + 0x55/0x5a5
[<c11dbd7e>]? ?redirected - tty - write + 0x0/0x68
[<c102cee5>]? do_group_exit 0x0/0x92
[<c137a079>]? syscall_call + 0x7/0x6

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init[/c]

searchfgold6789

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Registered: 2011-09-13

Posts: 41

Re: Installation on old PC

You're getting that because of your processor type. Try a different computer.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Installation on old PC

Processor type should not be a problem.

Slitaz runs like a champ on my Athlon II X2 255 with 2 gigs of ram.

Verify the iso:

[c]md5sum -c slitaz-4.0.md5[/c] with it's matching iso in same location.

Verify the burned cdr/rw :

Choose Check media at orange boot menu to verify slitaz files are good.

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Re: Installation on old PC

Hi,

Thanks for your answers. All checksums match (I've try both version lowram, and lowram.cdrom). Maybe problem is unetbootin which I use (pendrive have all sectors readable).

I've try on another machine (P5KPro, C2D 2,3GHz, 2GB RAM) all goes ok... except GParted which doesn't see my HDD (I have trying with AHCI on and off) so i can't install it from Slitaz livecd. And this is my question: which fs Slitaz support? Can i format it to EXT3 on MBR or i need EXT2?