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Hi Matt / Jason,<BR>
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I went with Matt's suggestion as it looked just right .<BR>
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It booted to the live CD and seemed to work, just very slow from the CD.<BR>
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I went through the install and all seemed fine, but when I came to try and re-boot afterwards it gets past the BIOS screen then I just get a black screen with flashing curser!<BR>
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I looked in google and another person reported the same problem and was told to boot to the CD and do a sudo update-grub, but like him I got<BR>
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)<BR>
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I also tried fdisk -l /dev/sda, but that came back<BR>
cannot open ?dev/sda<BR>
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I tried check disc from the CD menu, but that didn't seem to help.<BR>
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I am guessing it is something to do with grub, as it isn't even trying to boot, but I don't know how to get in to it and what to do.<BR>
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I would appreciate it if someone could guide me through, but I will need some very basic instructions!<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Keith<BR>
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On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 13:11 +0100, Jason Irwin wrote:
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On 09/06/12 19:11, Matthew Tompsett wrote:
> I reckon this might do well with Lubuntu, the LXDE variant of Ubuntu.
> Or maybe some other LXDE based distro. Give it a try
> <A HREF="http://lubuntu.net/">http://lubuntu.net/</A> . The website says it can run on a Pentium II or
> Celeron based system with 128 mb RAM. Good luck!
What Matt said. And if that doesn't work, try Lubuntu.
Or one of the newer Puppies perhaps?
There's always Arch if you fancy getting yer hands a bit dirty.
I can get an ageing Compaq to run Ubuntu/Mint with little trouble, but
it is blessed with a rather beefy ATI card. If you can get the lappies
GPU to carry some of the GUI load, performance will always be better.
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