I have an older desktop running an AMD 3000+ Sempron processor and from what i can tell starting out with Mint is a good idea. I dl a desktop version that would not run because processor incompatibility. I believe it was linux mint 32 bit dvd. I extracted with the unetbootion utility. the machines boots and gives me the menu but fails because of processor. i then tried a version of ubuntu utilizing the same technique and it wont even boot. bad startup kernel or something.
Question what version or file name of mint do i need to dand run? Please note i am extracting to a usb but do have cd's and dvds avail. prefer the usb
thanks in advance for your help

Hmmm. Toughy because not a lot of info there to go with.

If you downloaded the 64 bit dvd iso. That would explain your first quote I quoted.

Scratching my beard with that one as now I figure you aren't aware of doing md5m checks on downloaded Linux isos.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/346

Lastly. Maybe this may boot and work out for you instead of Mint or Ubuntu. The guys that made it are related to Mint Linux LMDE.

I'd download the which is a XFCE version and works really well. http://downloads.solydxk.com/

Newbie Friendly (I run it on one netbook) and should be OK on your gear. It will load on usb with unetbootin. Just be sure to do a md5sum check like I mentioned first on the downloaded iso file before installing to usb using unetbootin.

Edit: The distro recommendation above is being done blindly because not enough info in original post like
Make, model number, Cpu speed, Ram specs (how much), etc..... so this may help, or maybe not.

Good Luck and Happy Trails, Rok

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Well taken and I am just looking to get my feet wet. checksums are not completely vague to me. with the thought the older i get the less i know. i have been working as a novell systems engineer for 20 years. my overlooking machine specific specs in detail was overlooked but i must remember this is not a windows support site. you folks are serious and dedicated to the glory of linux in a similar way i have been to novell. i will proceed and hopefully make it to the novell based edition of linux. thanks paul

Searching for a Checksum program I came across WinND5Sum. With it I get a bad checksum so downloading from a different mirror. I wanted to provide more info on my machine.
Emachine W3050
80 GB HD
3000+ AMD Sempron
8GB RAM
Integrated nvidia Sound/Video
On board NIC no wireless, will have plugged into inet while installing w Cat 5 Cable

Primary use of this machine will be desktop running a browser to surf, and hopefully a workstation connected to the net running some sort of free fax server. Would like to have send/rec capabilities. Plus the ability to share my printer. I have yet to buy a printer.

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Well, Before I crash for the night. I own and run a Emachine 3507 and I used command line to check if the CPU was 64bit capable and it was. I run 32bit Linux on it though.

It came out of a dumpster.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d-deliver-174/

I see corrupted iso download now as your main problem. Thanks for posting back.

A Sempron is not 64-bit: I've got one right here! And I've never had a problem in testing over 100 distros, so the problem isn't the CPU. You can try the Mint disk again and choose the failsafe mode in the menu: that will help if the problem was the graphics or faulty implementation of ACPI. If that doesn't help, you've probably got a bad disk.

despite my using term 64 bit i ave dl 3-4 files and extracted to USB since the 1st one that was processor incompatible and i cant even get a menu it says no boot device available. I am also using a windows checksum program and none are passing. I dont need mint or can you tell me what file version of mint or other i should dl beyond first selecting mint which then takes me to various formats and versions. Thanks in advance. I am hoping to load before weekend is over and pretty confident i have the skills to do so if i could get past the ight verion/format, etc.
Paulie

There are 64 bit Semprons, you may have one right there but you obviously don't have one of each variety. Categorical statements don't help when they are wrong.

I think you have probably got a corrupted download although I see you are also running a very old version of Windows and I think that may not be helping your cause either. It is not clear what version of Windows you are working with so to make sure that is not your problem it would be good if you could tell us.

Anyway, Unetbootin requires Windows 2000 or greater, if you are using Windows ME, 98SE, 98, 95 then you're not going to get it working properly. I personally am not a fan of Unetbootin I prefer to dd iso images onto usb flash drives. I have never had a failure yet with dd but I have had a few with Unetbootin.

IMO its easier to use a torrent than to manually do checksumming.

I'd try burning to a CD/DVD myself. Sure, unetbootin and dding can work....with a system that old, there can be issues from booting from USB.

From what I can see the Emachine W3050 is a 32bit only 'socket a' sysyem. k3lt01 is correct, there lots of 64bit capable semprons (some of the socket 754 and 939 parts, all socket AM2 and newer).

I went with the torrent download and Install. I am now running Mint 15 "Olivia". Now I see their is a 16?. Anyways want to take things slowly until i get used to the desktop and basic settings. I will use the manual. Can i get one more free one with no effort? Can i run Netflix under LM 15. Tried and it says my browser is unsupported. Using the bundled Firefox with updates 25.0.1 Mozilla firfox for mint 1.0. Secondly I use Paltalk and need to run a Windows application downloaded from their site in the form of an .exe file. Can i do this?

My first thought is try google chrome; they seem to be trying to take over the world (whaha, oh sorry ) or, if you have a (speak of the devil) winblow$ disk or ISO you can run it in a VM?

Edit-in: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/lin...n-ubuntu-1210/
as-well could start a new thread in appropriate place?

Mint 15 will be supported until January 2014. When the time comes for you to upgrade to Mint 16 next month, you'll find this link helpful: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

Netflix does not support Linux. But, there are some unofficial hacks/workarounds. I am watching Netflix on Mint using Pipelight: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html

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