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 Jun 30 2007, 09:37 PM
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 ROCKPACALYPSE NOW Group: Members Posts: 1,519 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 13  |
I got an old gateway laptop from a friend for free, and the only problem with it is that the OS was corrupt - so I need to just install an OS on it. So hell, why not slap on linux.
I have a tftp service running from my windows pc and over the network I plan to just do a PXE boot based installation, where my XP pc is hosting the files and services etc. I am able to get it started however I always have it lock up at the same point. After it actually goes into the initrd.gz it locks up and tells me as the last two messages : EIP: [<c02c622a>] mutex_lock+0xa/0x20 SS;ESP 0068:c7901844 <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! So we can only assume the mutex lock is causing the process to die. So fuck it maybe I should try a different distro than Ubuntu that will possibly better support older hardware ? (Old Gateway laptop with a 750mhz cpu and 128mb ram) Suggestions for a distro ? Something I may be overlooking ? Advanced option in the install parameters ?. I like Debian based shit in my limited experience. -------------------- QUOTE (Lance) now we have some dude from argentina wondering how to fuck dogmeat |
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Jun 30 2007, 09:44 PM
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 Retired Funk-bringer Group: Moderators Posts: 2,656 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas Member No.: 14 |
try DSL (damn small linux) or PuppyLinux first -- they're both small and stripped down.
Does this thing not have a cd drive? Also, I haven't done much with PXE myself, but I had a friend who deployed XP to many workstations via PXE on a win2k3 server -- I think he said XP was too difficult to PXE from, but this was years ago -- in fact, it was the Win2k3 Release Candidate he was using. -------------------- WAIT. I'm not finished.
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Jul 1 2007, 01:16 AM
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ROCKPACALYPSE NOW Group: Members Posts: 1,519 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 13 |
PXE based installations aren't the most difficult. So your friend may have just been using a bad set of software. Plus doing it during beta can be funky.
The laptop in question has no cdrom drive, so thats why I just want to do it over PXE. PXE isn't perfect - but rather reliable once you understand it more. -------------------- QUOTE (Lance) now we have some dude from argentina wondering how to fuck dogmeat |
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Jul 1 2007, 12:43 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
you might have just gotten a bad set of install files or something... looks like a race condition in the code
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Jul 1 2007, 01:21 PM
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 GORILLA FLUFFER  Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Jul 1 2007, 01:43 PM)  looks like a race condition in the code 
--------------------  QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM) but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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Jul 1 2007, 02:03 PM
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ROCKPACALYPSE NOW Group: Members Posts: 1,519 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 13 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Jul 1 2007, 01:43 PM) you might have just gotten a bad set of install files or something... looks like a race condition in the code Also toying with the idea of the laptop's measley 128MB of RAM not enough to get things going. I'm hunting around for a low spec linux distro now - with PXE/netboot/whatever they prefer to call it - installation files -------------------- QUOTE (Lance) now we have some dude from argentina wondering how to fuck dogmeat |
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Jul 1 2007, 03:49 PM
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Retired Funk-bringer Group: Moderators Posts: 2,656 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas Member No.: 14 |
i think DSL and puppylinux are both smallspec distros. CUlinux is pretty much THE smallspec distro, but it can take some knowhow, I'm told. (dunno, never had a reason to use it.)
-------------------- WAIT. I'm not finished.
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Jul 1 2007, 10:27 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (FORSAKENR320 @ Jul 1 2007, 02:21 PM)  
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Jul 2 2007, 09:31 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
Try using an older version of Ubuntu.
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