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Aloha peeps. I have a Pentium 133MMX PC (old i know!) with a 1.2Gb HDD. I recently bought Pink Tie 9 to load on it, but it doesn't seem to be working. The setup screen appears, and I've tried a few different setup options (lowres, noprobe, text) but it always hangs with this line:
I think there's a fair chance it is to do with the age of your machine - incidentally I tried repeatedly to install Red Hat 9 on a Pentium 200mmx with no luck - mine hangs just before the actually package installation.
There are distros that can run on older computers - even in a light graphical mode - you could try the distrowatch link in my sig. at the bottom
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