[Nottingham] Light weight Linux

[Keith Palmer]

Thanks gents,

I still can't get Ubuntu or Lubuntu to install, but I tried Macpup and
that seems to work fine, so not sure what is going on there!

Cheers

Keith

On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 15:42 +0100, James Moore wrote:

> 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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