[Cialug] Installing Xubuntu

[Stuart Thiessen]

It seems to be a 393M (strange number, not sure why?) AMD K-6 500/2 
machine with 20GB. Lilo worked when I did a go back to get to an 
"experts" menu, but then it froze, then I tried to rescue it and 
reinstall Lilo. Then upon reboot, it would not accept my password into 
the system. I was confused. So, I am on another install to see if I can 
clean install, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to ask me 
upfront in the install process which bootloader I want. It seems to 
require grub but grudgingly allow lilo if you can finangle your way to 
finding it.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Apr 2, 2007, at 15:49, Adk wrote:

> "older machine" what does that mean? How about some specs? 192 M ram 
> is min.
>
> Allen
> --
> invent the car instead of giving the same horse better hay
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> --------- Original Message --------
> From: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Installing Xubuntu
> Date: 02/04/07 15:53
>
>>
>> There is an option on a menu after installation. But I don't see how 
>> to
>> get to it from the regular text install. It wants to install Grub
>> automatically. I didn't see an option to force lilo instead.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2007, at 14:42, David Champion wrote:
>>
>> &gt; Is there an option to use good old reliable lilo instead of grub?
>> &gt;
>> &gt; -dc
>> &gt;
>> &gt; Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>> &gt;&gt; I was installing Xubuntu 6.10 on an older machine that has a 
>> 20G
> hard
>> &gt;&gt; drive and 1 CD-RW and 1 CD-ROM drive. When I installed it the
> first 2
>> &gt;&gt; times from the CD (using the text mode install), I told it 
>> to use
> the
>> &gt;&gt; whole drive and automatically partition it. Then when I 
>> rebooted
> from
>> &gt;&gt; the hard drive it gave me a Grub error 18 which from what I
>> &gt;&gt; understand basically means that my booting partition was too 
>> big
> for
>> &gt;&gt; the BIOS??
>> &gt;&gt; So try #3 (third time is supposed to be the charm, right?), I
>> &gt;&gt; manually set up the partitions and set up a 4GB boot 
>> partition,
> and
>> &gt;&gt; then left the rest to / and swap. I rebooted from the hard 
>> drive,
> and
>> &gt;&gt; now I have a Grub error 17 which I am now researching.
>> &gt;&gt; Any suggestions?
>> &gt;&gt; Thanks,
>> &gt;&gt; Stuart
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