[Nottingham] Light weight Linux

[James Moore]

Hi Keith,

This might be useful: free download, exhaustive SMART reporting & 
realtime GUI monitoring - even runs as a bootdisk.

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HTH,

JM

On 10/06/2012 14:26, Keith Palmer wrote:
> 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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