01-29-2018, 12:56 PM
First time user of any Linux. Just for fun, I decided to try Linux Lite to see if it could breathe new life into a very old Windows XP Acer Travelmate laptop, rather than bin it.
Originally a Travelmate 242lc, but slightly upgraded with a Pentium4 2.8; 40GB HDD; 1250MB RAM.
Various attempts to install failed. Tried to run Gparted iso. This failed until I tried an old version which worked fine and I deleted all old partitions.
Linux Lite installer then proceeded - but only if I used the inbuilt partition manager to do 'something else' which was make a single large 39GB root partition, followed by 800MB swap.
So, the process is very slow with this processor and drive. Each attempt takes about 3 hours to reach the crash point.
Copying files completes, Configuring System locales crashes at configuring time zone; no bug report appears when crash window is closed (message says it should!)
Time shown in bios boot screen kept reverting to default, so changed CMOS battery as found to be almost flat, but that made no difference to install crash.
Any suggestions?
Originally a Travelmate 242lc, but slightly upgraded with a Pentium4 2.8; 40GB HDD; 1250MB RAM.
Various attempts to install failed. Tried to run Gparted iso. This failed until I tried an old version which worked fine and I deleted all old partitions.
Linux Lite installer then proceeded - but only if I used the inbuilt partition manager to do 'something else' which was make a single large 39GB root partition, followed by 800MB swap.
So, the process is very slow with this processor and drive. Each attempt takes about 3 hours to reach the crash point.
Copying files completes, Configuring System locales crashes at configuring time zone; no bug report appears when crash window is closed (message says it should!)
Time shown in bios boot screen kept reverting to default, so changed CMOS battery as found to be almost flat, but that made no difference to install crash.
Any suggestions?