DVD installation freezes at Welcome screen

[Rfish]

My install freezes at the Welcome screen. I'm a Linux newbie and wanted to reclaim a dust-covered 32-bit Toshiba laptop (2GB) to experiment with Linux and determine if I like it enough to convert my other pc's. After burning two DVD's with ImgBurn I get the same results: When I boot into start-up with DVD, I hit any key to get to the Welcome screen and the system freezes after choosing 'Start Linux Lite'. Or, if I let it tick down the 10 seconds, it simply shows the feather logo next to the words 'Linux Lite' on a blank screen. I'm stumped; I can't find anything online regarding a similar issue and hope someone here can help. Thanks!

[Valtam]

One of 2 things here Rfish, either you processor does not support PAE, or you could try 'Start Linux Lite in safe mode'.

[Rfish]

Same freezing result when I start in 'Safe Graphics Mode'. Sorry, proving my newb-iness I had to Wiki what PAE is... is there a workaround if my 1.7GHz Pentium doesn't support PAE?

[Valtam]

Boot into Windows if you still have it on that machine, and follow this guide to check for pae - https://bbs.linuxdistrocommunity.com/sho...hlight=pae see 'On Windows' section.

[Rfish]

Thanks, it does support PAE (and confirming that I did burn the 32-bit version downloaded via the HTTP download link). Any other thoughts?

[Valtam]

You could check the md5sum of the iso file you downloaded, see if it matches the release.

[Rfish]

Thanks, Valtam, after downloading the .iso via torrent I could start the install in safe mode and rec'd the error that PAE wasn't enabled after all (also d/l'd and burned the non-PAE 2.0 from SourceForge with same result). Forcepae could be used as a workaround but I don't understand how to step thru it and enable it. I usually can Google my way to a solution, but the info I've found on forcepae are a little deep for me. Any suggestions to enable PAE?

[Valtam]

Any suggestions to enable PAE?

It's only something I would recommend advanced users tackle and even then, anything with the word 'force' in it raises a red flag for me. It's not even something I would do but if you're keen, read through this guide here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE to be honest I wouldn't support this as we mentioned in the Official 2.0 release announcement non-pae is dead and we're better off using what free time we do have spare supporting the distro in it's released form. Cheers.