If your system is that old, you might find your best desktop to be
LXDE. Lubuntu is a good distro of it. It's a little rough cut but it
runs like the wind. The system that I am using originally had XP
service pack one in it. If you get kernel panic when you try to boot up,
it's because your old system is a 386 processor. If you want another
desktop, put Lubuntu in it if you have trouble and then use the
synaptic package manager to get KDE or Xubuntu into it. If you pick
KDE, disable the desktop effects because chances are your system can't
handle them. If it keeps coming off like you have a bad install, with
your task bar disappearing, etc, or it hangs, then your system can't
handle distros designed for a 686. The only Ubuntu distro that will
work with an old system is Lubuntu.
Mark
On 12-11-09 10:10 PM, Jack Chastain wrote:
Thanks all - I think Chris may have the correct analysis. This
third-shift work makes it miserable for me to try anything in a
reasonable frame, but I will give this a shot soon.
I believe based on the way things were installed that Chris is reading
it right - I don't understand why the external USB-based disk was the
only one I was offered (I tried a few times to insure I didn't have a
list of three drives - I did not, however, with the system up, fdisk
clearly sees the other drives) but there you go.
My impression is that - for some reason - Ubuntu installed itself to
the drive that is not available until the drives for that drive are
made available - after boot. Live and learn. Or not.
The system si a quite old Dell - I think it is maybe going on 10 years
now - and last night, I just got tired of the gradual and continual
slowdown of the system. I figured the only thing it really has is
Visio, so I would replace the (even older?) laptop and see if I
couldn't squeak out a little more performance. Silly me.
Unfortunately, now I am at work in White Plains and won't be home
until about 0600 - I guess I will get to play then. For now, off to do
some reading.
JC
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Friday, November 09, 2012 05:30:24 PM Matthias Johnson wrote:
> Chris,
>
> You may be correct but if the internal drive wasnt mountable how
would it
> install anything to it?
>
> Matthias
When Grub2 installs the boot sector portion of the boot loader
into the MBR,
it does that on the raw device (such as /dev/sda), not a
filesystem. When it
installs the /rest/ of Grub2 -- the configuration, modules, etc --
that's done
on a mounted filesystem.
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