[Closed] Linux Lite 2.0 installation freezing

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Maybe I should have said this earlier, but when that black screen comes up, the CD drive keeps making a lot of noise, the kind of noise I hear when I'm playing a DVD and navigating the menu. Does that noise means the CD drive is jumping between locations on the CD? If so, it's doing that constantly when the black screen is up.

On older system like that it will take quite a bit of time for the CD to load and it will sound like it's jumping around reading from different sections of disk.  How long did you wait for it to load?  It may take up to 5-10 minutes, especially with limited RAM.  Try again if you only waited a minute or two.

It may also be that the CPU requires a non-PAE kernel, which is not what's on LL.  You can try to get around that by appending "forcepae" to the boot parameters.  Boot with DVD again, when you see the boot menu hit the <TAB> key to edit the boot arguments.  Hit the spacebar once, then type "forcepae" (without the quotes).  Then hit <ENTER> key.

If none of above work, then it's likely that you really do only have 256MB of RAM.  That's not enough for LL to work with, but another distro that should work is AntiX.  Download AntiX-15 from here and make a live CD.  It's a very lightweight distro and should work fine on that computer.  At the very least you can use it to find out the exact specs of the system and post them here for us to see.  Just open a terminal once you've booted into the desktop and enter this command:

Code:

inxi -Fxz

Copy the results and paste them back here for us to see.  (Just use Iceweasel browser in AntiX to login to forum and post while still running from there.)