[Nottingham] Light weight Linux

[Keith Palmer]

Hi Matt / Jason,

I went with Matt's suggestion as it looked just right .

It booted to the live CD and seemed to work, just very slow from the CD.

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!

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
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev
mounted?)

I also tried fdisk -l /dev/sda, but that came back
cannot open ?dev/sda

I tried check disc from the CD menu, but that didn't seem to help.

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.

I would appreciate it if someone could guide me through, but I will need
some very basic instructions!

Thanks

Keith

On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 13:11 +0100, Jason Irwin wrote:

> 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
> > http://lubuntu.net/ . 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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