I ran Caldera ( a long time ago! ) on the old<br>
box. Nothing on the newer box, but will be trying<br>
some others. Both boxes run windoz fine - <br>
fine considering windoz anyway.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'll try the vesa driver on the new machine. As <br>
mentioned, the "live" CD runs on the old machine,<br>
albeit quit slowly. Too slowly to be interesting.<br>
<br>
<br>
Manually resetting the machine? I don't follow.<br>
<br>
<br>
"Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?" How<br>
do I do that? <br>
<br>
<br>
The motherboard is an ASUS A7A266. About <br>
5 or 6 years old. The display card is an ATI<br>
"Rage Fury Pro." 32MB of memory.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'll try a CD-R rather than a CD-RW at some point<br>
with the "install" version. Seems far fetched, but<br>
nothing else is making much sense at this point.<br>
<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
<br>
<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/14/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> The "live" version came up on an older machine, but<br>> was indeed too slow to be interesting. On a newer
<br>> machine it comes up to a point, and then I get display<br>> problems.<br><br>Have you given other recent Linux distributions a shot on the same<br>hardware? You could also try specifying the vesa display driver,
<br>which should work on any graphics hardware.<br><br>> The "install" version results in the endless "Press a key<br>> to reboot" messages. I'm repeating myself a bit here,<br>> but just to be clear, it is the "install" version that I am
<br>> really interested in. The "live" version can't be taken<br>> seriously except as a demo vehicle.<br><br>Sounds like either a bad CD, a funky ACPI setup, or some other odd<br>problem. Have you tried manually resetting the machine?
<br><br>> I suspect Ubuntu has to work better than this, given its<br>> reputation, which is why I brought up the possibility that<br>> there might be some kind of "burn" issue, even though<br>> just what escapes me. The DVD/CD device works fine
<br>> in all other respects. I routinely use it for backups.<br><br>Check the MD5 / SHA1 signature of the ISO?<br><br>> Now, my machine is a home rolled unit too, so I really<br>> can't go and say to anyone "Ubuntu doesn't work on an X
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