Comments on: ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL LINUX PART 1 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1745 TheLinuxBlog.com Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:34:14 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1745 @Michael
That’s what I’m thinking. SquashFS is after all used as a read-only file system, so perhaps thats something to look into @Aaron.

]]> By: Mark Ferns http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1744 Mark Ferns Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:09:15 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1744 If you Google “satellite a55 ubuntu” you will find quite a few posts which suggest that your laptop should work okay with Linux.

This one says that Ubuntu (be it an earlier version) also works http://toae.org/?p=122

From my experience, the most likely problem is the cd burner.

]]> By: Michael http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1743 Michael Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:07:34 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1743 Are you sure you do not have bad RAM? The random lock and failure seems to point to faulty RAM in my opinion.

]]> By: Thumos http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Thumos Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:02:30 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1742 Congrats on trying to install Linux on your old machine. Have you tried running several different live CD’s to see if any will work with your machine out of the box? This may help prevent any further major headaches. I have had pretty good luck with Puppy Linux, CrunchBang and Slitaz but YMMV.

]]> By: iadude http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1741 iadude Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:56:07 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1741 Try Fedora 10. I have installed on my Asus eee 900- everything worked- even the wifi and function keys. Also test on old hack box P3-600 – runs great. Switching my main desktop soon.

]]> By: John http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1739 John Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:14:26 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/attempting-to-install-linux-part-1/#comment-1739 I switched to Linux about 3 years. I went through a lot of distros until I found one that worked for me. Ubuntu was not it. Loaded with problems and looked like crap. Xandros was the first that really worked but I didn’t want to pay for it. I have gone through many distros, some work with your hardware and some don’t. Don’t get hung up on just one distro, try a bunch of liveCD’s and see what works with your hardware, not all of them will. Before you burn any CD check with the distro’s instructions to see if they have particular steps to take. One distro said to use DAO and speed as slow as you can go. Don’t give up. Check http://www.linux.org for distros that run on older hardware. Some are designed just for that purpose. Don’t pick from what is popular and ‘cool’, pick something that will work with your hardware.

john

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