Trying to install 11.4 on an older machine: AMD K6 2/500 Mhz with over 300 megs of ram. The machine ran fine with windows; no hardware problems.
(Downloaded and burned a 11.4 KDE live CD image using Infrarecorder at slow speed.)
After burning the CD, booted the machine that I am trying to put OpenSuse on and was able to get to the welcome screen. Ran into problems from there.
After clicking installation or run Live KDE I received errors:
Failed to Mount Clic filesystem
Failed to Mount root filesystem
reboot exception: error consoles at alt-F3/F4
reboot exception: reboot in 120 sec
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I advise a less optimistic choice of distro or at least desktop.
Hardware requirements - openSUSE
You might be able to install openSUSE from a DVD (not a CD) and only if you choose LXDE desktop
Ran fine on windows ? Which windows ? winXP ? I doubt WinVista nor Win7 will run on that cpu.
I believe the AMD K6 is an i586 compatible CPU, and hence one needs a GNU/Linux that supports an i586. I can’t recall if this is the case for openSUSE.
Anyway, the 300MB of RAM is marginal.
Unfortunately I can NOT recommend you try the LXDE liveCD because its liveCD is for i686 or newer: Index of /repositories/X11:/lxde/images/iso
I do note the liveCDs (KDE/Gnome) have .i586 in the iso file name, and hence maybe they do work with a K6. Does your old PC have a DVD drive ? If so, you could try installing from the DVD and select the LXDE desktop from there.
… but this is all on the assumption that a K6 is fully .i586 compatible and that one can install openSUSE on an ancient .i586 and I do not know if that is the case.
rev pat wrote:
>
> Trying to install 11.4 on an older machine: AMD K6 2/500 Mhz with over
> 300 megs of ram. The machine ran fine with windows; no hardware
> problems.
> (Downloaded and burned a 11.4 KDE live CD image using Infrarecorder at
> slow speed.)
> After burning the CD, booted the machine that I am trying to put
> OpenSuse on and was able to get to the welcome screen. Ran into problems
> from there.
> After clicking installation or run Live KDE I received errors:
>
> Failed to Mount Clic filesystem
> Failed to Mount root filesystem
> reboot exception: error consoles at alt-F3/F4
> reboot exception: reboot in 120 sec
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
We had a user here some time ago who had trouble with a K6 it did not work,
even with the i586 versions you can install from the dvd (I guess somehow
the cpu was not correctly recognized), sorry that I cannot post the link to
the thread I simply do not remeber its title.
You can of course try to install openSUSE but DO NOT use the live cd’s as
you did it they are i686 and as you see they will fail. Use the full dvd or
the netinstall and choose one of the light desktop environments, lxde will
work with that amount of RAM and I know that xfce will also work with it.
In case you run into trouble my personal point of view is - go for a distro
specialized for older machines like antix (http://antix.mepis.org/), choose
NOt the i686 version but the i486 version it runs on almost everything which
still exists. There are of course other distros for old hardware, but I
never tried them.
If you do not mind to configure a lot yourself then plain old debian is also
an option it is compatible to very old cpu architectures and will work (of
course with a full KDe or Gnome you will have no fun, so also in this case
lxde or xfce is a good choice).
As much as I like openSUSE, I am afraid you are lost with it on your
hardware and you have to choose some different distro for it.
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PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Well thanks to everyone for your responses. And it was win 2000 that ran fine on it. However, I have ditched windows awhile back. I just had this old machine hanging around in good shape and just wanted to do something with it.