floppy? I prefer using CDs, Hirens Boots CD has PLOP Boot Manager: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
2013/7/22 Richie Bloss <[email protected]> > Hi, currently on 12.04 & just discovered it's not LTS (like Ubuntu), so > might as well go with Saucy. > > I just got the Bluetooth (Bluez) devices working, the laptop entering > sleep mode when closing lid & WiFi working. So why not install 13.10 & do > it all over again. > > > Last year I was unsuccessful installing 12.04 from CD, the install froze > each & every time. Remember trying several of the options: acpi=off, noapic, > etc. Do not remember everything I tried but really had no idea what i was > doing anyway - still don't :). Did create a thread on the Ubuntu forums > but can't get to it right now, forums down. > > 11.10 installs just fine. I only have a CD drive & the machine does not > support boot from USB. > > > Here is an email, I saved, from the Lubuntu mailing list a while back: > > *************************************************************************** > * We need to run Saucy installs on as much hardware as possible as I > > > believe there is more to this than just RAM size. I suspect some > > old CD > > > drives aren't really up to it. I know the one in this machine is > > > somewhat erratic. > > > > Therefore we need to recommend the usage of usb live sticks. > > CD-ROM/DVD-ROM > > drives tend to fail and also cd/dvd-writers tend to write cd-rs with > > to much > > errors. > > > > > > Hello Leszek, > > > > You may forgot that some old machines don't really have USB Ports. If > > these have, the machine doesn't boot from that USB and not everyone > > knows about PLOP, and yes, we are talking about the new and beginners > users. > > > > I do agree that LiveUSB makes a lot of difference indeed as far as I've > > seen for the last 2 years for so many tests I have personally done. > > However, the classic and the standard approach, IMHO, shall be the > LiveCD.* > ** > ** > * the BIG change with Saucy is the recent inclusion of ZRam, it is for > > this reason we are re-testing "how low can it go" :)* > ************************************************************************** > > > Plop sounds interesting. I do have a floppy drive that has barely been > used. Could I create a floppy disk image (plpbt.img?) & boot from that? > Do I have enough floppy's? > > Before I begin thought perhaps I might post here & ask for suggestions > regarding the best way to get the 13.10 install going on an old P3 that has > only CD & will not boot from USB? > > Some months back on the Lubuntu Facebook group someone (Phill I > think) suggested an alternate method for installing Lubuntu with a feature > at that time unsupported by Lubuntu. This was for machines that had > trouble with normal installs from LiveCD. > > What about the Minimal Install even tho I see that's applies to PC's with > 1/4 the RAM? Would that make my PC even faster? > > > On another note: > Have been setting swappiness value to 10 which helps - not completely sure > how zRAM & swappiness differ. Low values of swappiness avoid swapping > memory to the swap partition as much as possible whereas zRAM creates a > compressed swap partition in RAM, does that sound right? > zRAM appears to make the old P3 faster than swappiness. > Would there be further benefit setting swappiness down to 10 (or 0) with > zRAM installed? > Came across a confusing askubuntu thread thread suggesting: > *zRam is useful for people using computers with 1GB or 2GB RAM. Since > zRam is compressing data, it require some processor resources. Not much, > but always. For that reason i do not recommend to use it with old processors > *. > That seems contradictory to the stated objective for zRAM in 13.10. > > > Sorry if this is too many questions. [?] > > thanks > > -- > I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like > I did. > Yogi Berra > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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