First Time Linux Install On Old Desktop

Owndapwn · 01-23-2011, 08:44 PM

I reburned the disc after the first time.
I'll redownload Ubuntu and try then as I have no idea what you mean by md5-sum.

EDDY1 · 01-23-2011, 10:50 PM

Here are some screenshots.
Ijust downloaded t& installed
screenshot 1. I made it default isoburner

2.should be #3. shows where you select from
3. shows where you should choose what tyoe of operation, which yours shoud be to burn iso image

Sorry I can't get images uploaded from here. maybe I can send them to another machine.

Owndapwn · 01-24-2011, 04:43 PM

Thank you Markush. Redownloading seemed to fix the mounting issue. it is *technically* installed.
I say technically because all I need to do is account info.
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03344.jpg
That is a picture of the screen I'm on. No matter the password, it still grays out the forward button.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific password syntax? An override?
I can set up the account after it's installed.

markush · 01-24-2011, 04:57 PM

it seems you have a conflict there. You give a password and have choosed "log automatically". I think if you want to use a password, you'll have to choose "require my password to login".

Markus

Owndapwn · 01-24-2011, 04:58 PM

I have tried both.
It was to show I have tried skipping the password as well as using a password.

TobiSGD · 01-24-2011, 05:03 PM

Your problem here is that you have a capital letter in your user-name. I don't know why the installer doesn't complain about this instead of just disabling the forward button. Use a user-name with all lower-case letters and it should work.

Owndapwn · 01-24-2011, 05:06 PM

Thank you.
That is by far, the stupidest thing EVER. (Aside from Apple's business practices)

markush · 01-24-2011, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

...you have a capital letter in your user-name...

TobiSGD,

thanks, I didn't see that.

Markus

EDDY1 · 01-24-2011, 07:11 PM

I had the same issue installing to Virtual Box it happens when you give weak password then go back to make a stronger 1.
It really wants you to input some numbers in password. The trick is not to take too long making up a password, while it's in process of copying files & try to move to re-enter password on next line until installer is happy.

Owndapwn · 01-25-2011, 03:48 PM

Alright.
So it is fully installed and powers on, but as I expected, Ubuntu is too robust for this computer.
It's a Dell Dimension 3000 (stock).
Did you know they don't have graphics cards? O_o So plugging in the stock card from my good comp is out.

Based on this, can anyone recommend a less-heavy distro?

snowday · 01-25-2011, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Owndapwn

Alright.
So it is fully installed and powers on, but as I expected, Ubuntu is too robust for this computer.
It's a Dell Dimension 3000 (stock).
Did you know they don't have graphics cards? O_o So plugging in the stock card from my good comp is out.

Based on this, can anyone recommend a less-heavy distro?

No distro will compensate for a lack of graphics card, unfortunately.

I googled your system specs and see that the Dimension 3000 is a 2.8ghz Pentium 4... Linux should fly on a system that fast!

Anyways, if you want to give your system a little boost, you could try installing a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE (with "sudo apt-get install lxde" then log out and choose it from Sessions on the login screen) but again if you are having trouble with the graphics card, that is not really a distro-specific problem.

TobiSGD · 01-25-2011, 04:02 PM

The stock Dimension 3000 came with Ram sizes between 128Mb up to 1 GB, that is a to wide range to actually recommend you a distro. If we would know how much RAM you really have it would be very helpful.

Owndapwn · 01-25-2011, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowpine

No distro will compensate for a lack of graphics card, unfortunately.

I googled your system specs and see that the Dimension 3000 is a 2.8ghz Pentium 4... Linux should fly on a system that fast!

Anyways, if you want to give your system a little boost, you could try installing a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE (with "sudo apt-get install lxde" then log out and choose it from Sessions on the login screen) but again if you are having trouble with the graphics card, that is not really a distro-specific problem.

The graphics card isn't a physical card. This is a photo of the inside. What you are seeing is directly behind the plugs. That pink thing is the VGA plug.
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03351.jpg
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03350.jpg

I took some little test on which distro to use (first result for "linux distro chooser") and it recommended OpenSUSE. How would these compare?

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After popping off the case, it has two sticks of 256MB RAM, so 512MB.

EDIT:: LXDE download links are broken.

lazlow · 01-25-2011, 04:22 PM

A P4 with 512 should be cruising along nicely with virutally any distro. What EXACTLY are you running and why do you think it is too slow?

markush · 01-25-2011, 04:23 PM

I'd recommend to boot with any live-CD, like Slax for example and post the output of

Code:

free

for the Ram and

Code:

lspci

for the other hardware.

Markus