I have an old 500MHz Compaq POS that I want to use as a server for samba, bittorrent, media streaming, etc. I was previously using this PC as a samba-based NAS device using the NASLite boot floppy.
I have a long story to tell that involves multiple attempts at installing Ubuntu Feisty Alternate-nogui, Dapper Server, back and forth a few times, and finally Feisty Server. I'm not going to get into the details. Here's how the drives are/were partitioned (3-80GB drives): hda1 - 100mb - ext2 - /boot hda2 - 1gb - swap hda3 - 78.9GB - lvm hdc1 - 80gb - lvm hdd1 - 80gb - lvm /dev/vg0/lv0 - 20gb - ext3 - / /dev/vg0/lv1 - 218.9GB - ext3 - /home Now, the last time I installed (Feisty server), I chose "Guided partitioning (LVM)" using only hda1 to see if that might fix something. It did not. The problem (guess I should mention that, huh?) is that right after GRUB, I get "Starting up..." at the top of the screen, then a reboot. At one point (I think with Dapper server) it was working okay. I never got a login, but I could switch to a new console and log in just fine. I've installed an OS on this computer six times in the past two weeks, and I'm sick of it. Anybody got any ideas? Joe
