[Wylug-help] Installing on ancient systems?

[Anne Wilson]

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On Saturday 01 May 2004 13:31, you wrote:
> Hi Anne
>
> > Maybe I'm just asking too much, but I wondered whether it would be
> > possible to put a user-friendly distro onto a system with a celeron
> > 300 and 128MB ram.  I thought the best thing to do was to boot
> > knoppix, but it simply moved on to the hdd, bypassing the cdrom.
> > SUSE LiveEval did the same.  MEPIS started up OK, but then said
>
> It sounds like your system isn't set-up to boot from CD-Rom, but I
> guess you've checked that right?
>
Yes - according to the bios it is set to boot from CD-Rom - besides, the
MEPIS disk did boot - it just couldn't continue.

Anne
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