06-22-2016, 07:15 PM
Trying to install LL3.0-32 on a Dell Dimension 4100 configured with 512M RAM and 20GB HDD. Machine has only CD ROM Drive so need to boot from USB so created bootable USB thumb drive using multibootusb. Dimension 4100 BIOS lacks USB boot option so created plpbt.img 5.0.15 on 3.5" diskette. Machine boots plop from the diskette and boots the USB image. After selecting Linux Lite 3.0 32bit and then LL safe mode, the loader finds vmlinuz and initrd.gz and shows dots while loading the files. After initrd.gz finishes loading, the screen fills with dots that are continually scrolling forever; after watching this for 30 minutes, pressing ESC aborts whatever is happening and provides a boot prompt. Pressing ENTER at the boot prompt returns to the boot menu. If regular Start LL is selected instead the system simply hangs after accessing the USB thumb drive for a while--no errors are observed. Would anyone know what might be causing this behavior and whether or not there are any boot options that might allow proceeding with the install? Selecting the Integrity Check without the "quiet splash --" options produces the same result (screen full of scrolling dots after loading initrd.gz).