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On 19/10/11 20:48, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:16:47 +0100 Stephen Cutts wrote:I'll try to keep this short and sweet, for reasons I won't go into I aquired what I believe to be a nine year old laptop if not slightly older, it's specs are: a 20gb HDD 639mb of what I assume is DDR ram and an unspecified Atholon XP mobile processor. Now my question to the great minds of the LUG is simple, after the lubuntu install for this laptop failed/crashed several times, can anyone think of a linux distro that would run on it?I fully expect any distro will work just fine on it. The first laptop I ever had was: PII 350MHz 256MB or SDRAM (100MHz FSB) 10GB HDD 800x600 Active Matrix display It ran Debian fine and was a great little job. With specs like yours, you don't need to go for a "specialised low-end" distro - your hardware is hardly low-end! Grant.
try adding the boot time options acpi=off noapic which deal with the hardware limitations of earlier kit -- Regards Björn -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq