• Registered: 2009-02-02
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Topic: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

So, the computer downstairs doesnt like to boot from a CD...it seems like it doesnt recognize it as a bootable medium even though I choose the boot from cd option. Sooooo I need suggestions on what a good small OS would be for the lil Pentium 3 (600MHz with 512+ GB of RAM (Maybe even 1GB i cant remember). I was thinking xubuntu but idk, so..advice big_smile

Last edited by stopie (2009-09-19 08:03:38)

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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

If it doesn't like to boot from CD, how would you plan on installing any other distro?

Its old, so I dont think it can boot from USB.

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  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

anonymous wrote:

If it doesn't like to boot from CD, how would you plan on installing any other distro?

Its old, so I dont think it can boot from USB.

Its when it reads the cd that it starts lock itself up, so I thought it might be distro specific. I know it sounds silly but I feel as though Ive run out of enough options as to where I may now disregard common sense to some degree tongue

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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

Try Xubuntu. If it works then maybe your CrunchBang CD is bad. If it doesn't work then maybe your laptop doesn't like *buntu.

For a different distro perhaps Zenwalk?

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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

Oddly enough, I've had the best luck with plain vanilla Ubuntu on my daughter's 700 MHz machine.  Xubuntu was painfully slow but Ubuntu is fast enough to be quite usable.

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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

Try something tiny like tinycore (look at distrowatch for the link).

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Re: [SOLVED] Some suggestions if you please

Sooo...solution is somewhat silly.

Turns out that unetbootin for linux does not work for me...for some odd reason. So, when I made the live-cd using unetbootin on my windows box, it worked great with ubuntu9.04 - so now I have a cpu with 9.04 and I now need a use for it...