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In the end I actually listened to Grant and finally got lubuntu to install via the alternative install disk, which unlike the standard disk didn't crash on me. On 19 October 2011 20:54, Björn <zzbjorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq