On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix cpu. > It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one more go > at it. > > All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first try, > typed 'linux nopentium noapic'. This brought just a blank screen. > > I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1 > into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just before > the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel. > > a) What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives? > b) Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? <g> > > Anne also if it has an onboard video card, giving the "mem=xxxM" statements where xxx= the amount of installed memeory minus the amount "shared" with the video. as well as remembering to turn off Plug and play aware OS?
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