I downloaded Kubuntu 7.04 and love the look of it. Blue's always been my colour. <grin> I installed it fine on a virtual machine on my 2.2Ghz Pentium 5 Celeron with .5GiG of a RAM and a virtual drive of 8.2 GIGs. Then I tried to install it on the machine outlined in the subject line. It ground away all evening and kept on reboot over and over again with no progress being made. Finally in frustration I gave it the deep six...and went back to the virtual machine. Has anyone got any insights as to why the install (which installs fine on the virtual machine) would reboot over and over again in this manner? Thanks.
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Re: Install gritch on a 33Mhz 486...reboots and reboots and reboots
Well, to start, you need 256MB of ram to install from the live cd - I doubt a '486 has that - plus to run KDE itself, you have to have "at least a pentium II processor, 64MB of memory and 500MB of free disk space for a basic installation" and that is taken straight from kde.org...
I would maybe suggest something like DSL for you box - and something running no more than perhaps a FVWM or IceWM desktop. -
Re: Install gritch on a 33Mhz 486...reboots and reboots and reboots
Well it's a pity I can't install it on the old box. I have it installed on a virtual on a 2.2Ghz box. Rocks! I found an older copy of Mandrake 9 and installed it on the old box. It's KDE 3.0 and looks good. It did an amazing job of finding hardware when Windows 98 SE had had trouble. Windows XP Pro loaded but it didn't find the right hardware. I'm playing with it. I'm hopeful it will resurrect the old CD burner in there. We'll see. Thanks for your advise. I really appreciate it!Comment
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