On Thu, May 6, 2021, 2:29 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an older computer (Jetway mini ATX, Atom D525 processor -- > Thanks, Rich) which currently has Slackware 14.2 running on it. I > installed it back on March 3, 2019. I haven't used the little box for > some time, but now have a new use for it, and want to replace Slackware > with Xubuntu 20. My documentation tells me I used a Plop CD to be able > to boot from a USB stick, the same one I used to install Xubuntu 20 on > this machine. The CD fires up and gives me options on which device to > use. I select the USB option, it blinks a few times, then gives me a new > set of options that I can't scroll through. Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Have you checked the architecture of the machine? since you have a distro on it check the arch and cpu extensions. $ uname -a $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Ubuntu dropped support for old x86 processors so you need to look for things like PAE and proceed accordingly -Ben _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
