greetings.
i was given a used but fairly recent (though it still said "ibm" not "lenovo") desktop machine with a 1024x768 lcd, which i thought i would fix up for a disabled neighbor. it has XP on it, but my neighbor used to program in C and so i thought i'd make it a dual-boot machine. it has two 3gHz pentium processors and a batch of memory. it's old enough that i figured i'd put trinity-ubuntu 10.10 on it. i boot from the CD, and i get the usual dab of text messages during boot, but then -- nothing. screen goes and stays dark, in auto-sleep. machine and monitor work fine on windows side, but i can't get trinity to install. i can go ahead and give it to him with windows, but would rather offer both, because he'll like linux better.
ideas?
Try installing a more recent operating system than ubuntu's unsupported 10.10
On 21 May 2013 15:03, dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
greetings.
i was given a used but fairly recent (though it still said "ibm" not "lenovo") desktop machine with a 1024x768 lcd, which i thought i would fix up for a disabled neighbor. it has XP on it, but my neighbor used to program in C and so i thought i'd make it a dual-boot machine. it has two 3gHz pentium processors and a batch of memory. it's old enough that i figured i'd put trinity-ubuntu 10.10 on it. i boot from the CD, and i get the usual dab of text messages during boot, but then -- nothing. screen goes and stays dark, in auto-sleep. machine and monitor work fine on windows side, but i can't get trinity to install. i can go ahead and give it to him with windows, but would rather offer both, because he'll like linux better.
ideas?
dep
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Hi! PCLinuxOS has great support for both older and newer computers. It works great on my Thinkpad A31p, which is much older than a dual-core computer.
Do you know about thinkwiki.org?
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:04:55 -0400 From: mutantturkey@gmail.com To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Subject: Re: [trinity-users] another little issue
Try installing a more recent operating system than ubuntu's unsupported 10.10
On 21 May 2013 15:03, dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
greetings.
i was given a used but fairly recent (though it still said "ibm" not "lenovo") desktop machine with a 1024x768 lcd, which i thought i would fix up for a disabled neighbor. it has XP on it, but my neighbor used to program in C and so i thought i'd make it a dual-boot machine. it has two 3gHz pentium processors and a batch of memory. it's old enough that i figured i'd put trinity-ubuntu 10.10 on it. i boot from the CD, and i get the usual dab of text messages during boot, but then -- nothing. screen goes and stays dark, in auto-sleep. machine and monitor work fine on windows side, but i can't get trinity to install. i can go ahead and give it to him with windows, but would rather offer both, because he'll like linux better.
ideas?
dep
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On Tuesday 21 May 2013 14:53:48 you wrote:
Hi! PCLinuxOS has great support for both older and newer computers. It works great on my Thinkpad A31p, which is much older than a dual-core computer.
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It could be a real smp box, two cpus..not cores ?
said Greg Madden:
| It could be a real smp box, two cpus..not cores ?
it indeed has two cpus -- was a very expensive computer when it was gotten.
as to the thinkwiki suggestion -- this is a desktop-case server, not a thinkpad.
On Tuesday 21 May 2013 15:55:25 you wrote:
said Greg Madden: | It could be a real smp box, two cpus..not cores ?
it indeed has two cpus -- was a very expensive computer when it was gotten.
as to the thinkwiki suggestion -- this is a desktop-case server, not a thinkpad.
Model # of box would help. Boot with Knoppix or equal and see what the hardware, lshw or lspci.
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