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| Thread ID: 83774 | 2007-10-12 15:15:00 | PCLOS Safe Mode Q's | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 600965 | 2007-10-13 16:17:00 | PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586 Kernal 2.6.18.8.te4x5 on an i686 / ttyl Just a maybe but notice the i586 and i686,Perhaps yr box is i386 and maybe not compatible. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 600966 | 2007-10-13 16:59:00 | Aha!.... Where would that info be? Will aida tell me? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600967 | 2007-10-13 17:01:00 | The date thing can be a problem but it just may be yr system clock that needs setting.Syncing the clocks is neccessary sometimes as one or other may show a date that is way in the future. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 600968 | 2007-10-13 17:07:00 | Aha!.... Where would that info be? Will aida tell me? No idea but I do recall that some download sites have different downloads for i386.Also as a point of interest I run PCLOS and Klikit which is very similar but comes as a DVD download of 990 MB and so has a lot more installed from the start. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 600969 | 2007-10-13 17:19:00 | The date thing can be a problem but it just may be yr system clock that needs setting.Syncing the clocks is neccessary sometimes as one or other may show a date that is way in the future. Crazy it may be...but the date/time is correct in the taskbar when I can see it...and I ask PCL to take the system time as the token, and it won't. I know the system time is correct... ....gonna look for an i386 dnld..I have DSL/no caps so I might give it a try. Seems that this is the probable cause..as PCL went into a couple of other installs but this Dell XP750 won't let it....... Watch this space for further info and silly questions. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600970 | 2007-10-13 19:08:00 | PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586 Kernal 2.6.18.8.te4x5 on an i686 / ttyl Just a maybe but notice the i586 and i686,Perhaps yr box is i386 and maybe not compatible.i686 is the designation for Pentium 2 (and the AMD equivalent) processor and above. If this machine runs XP OK, then I'm guessing it is at least this. Personally I would not have wasted so much time with PCLinuxOS on this machine, as obviously there is something not right. Pick another distro and try that instead. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 600971 | 2007-10-13 19:40:00 | i686 is the designation for Pentium 2 (and the AMD equivalent) processor and above. If this machine runs XP OK, then I'm guessing it is at least this. Personally I would not have wasted so much time with PCLinuxOS on this machine, as obviously there is something not right. Pick another distro and try that instead.SurferJoe, have read a few of you Linux posts and would tend to agree with Jen. I see you had reasonable success with (K)Ubuntu, have you tried Mepis? Mepis uses the Ubuntu repositories, but is comparable to, maybe even better than PCLinuxos in my opinion |
lysdexic (12796) | ||
| 600972 | 2007-10-13 22:32:00 | SurferJoe, have read a few of you Linux posts and would tend to agree with Jen . I see you had reasonable success with (K)Ubuntu, have you tried Mepis? Mepis uses the Ubuntu repositories, but is comparable to, maybe even better than PCLinuxos in my opinion I can say that I have had remarkable success with Mepis . . . somehow . . . I don't know how . . . I got it to run as a media server and it's doing it very well on a SOYO MOBO with an Athlon XP processor 1 . 5 and 2g RAM with 8/500g hdds and another 40g for the <root> . Don't ask me how . . I think it was set up by the good cobbler's elves while I wasn't looking . There are bad cobbler's elves too . . . I know what I'm saying here . I was so happy with the way PCL looks, I really . . REALLY wanted to get it into this Dell . . and I might try one more time . Jen knows of the time I lost all the data on all the harddrives on that system . . . I was trying for a dual boot (GRUB) and somehow Mepis took a wild hair and deleted and formatted everything . I swore I'd never do a dual-boot again . . . but this XP install is so new, I want to try it again and see if I can make it work . All I'd lose is a day's work installing XP and SP2 and all the hotfixes and updates for XP and a bunch of dead electrons . If that fails (and you'll hear me in NZ from Southern California), I'll go back to good ol' Mepis . I really appreciate all youse guys bearing with me here on this windmill quest . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600973 | 2007-10-14 05:07:00 | "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly" I have had this message on an installed version of PCLOS once - I just logged out and logged back in and all came right. I am not sure what the cause of this might be? Everything was working - just file system shortcuts I had made on the desktop were missing. |
johnd (85) | ||
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