I have an old thinkpad 600e p2 300 and I'm trying to install M11, but none of the ISO images will boot on this machine. Some just hang, and some get a grfx error. I've tried the 686, base-686, and 486 iso images both from burned cd's and from usb installs, all of which boot on another computer.

It looks like an isolinux problem to me. Is anyone else using this on old hardware? Are there any alternate installation methods that do not require booting the cd, such a network install?

TIA, grim

Take the hd out, place in a different pc, install antiX, put hd back in your p2 and boot?

Hope it helps.


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Experienced a similar problem on a modern desktop, I used unetbootin to wrote the image to a usb stick, and I got the message that it could not find the AntiX files and was dropping to a shell. So I tried the stick in a EeePC 701 netbook, and it booted up perfectly. So I tried again with the desktop, this time I plugged it directly into a usb port on the PC, rather than into a usb hub that I normally use, and it booted up straight away! Rather strange that, as I often boot up via the usb hub, and have never experienced any trouble before.

I just thought that I would mention this in case it helps anyone else having this problem.

Try rootdelay=20 at boot menu

If you have this model with 64 M ram only, it's do-able, but without an active swap can take a while. Patience and Rootdelay indeed might be what's needed.

I got it installed. I booted from the iso image using grub2. I later reinstalled using a usb key. Since this system doesn't boot from usb, I booted plop boot manager on a floppy, which allowed me to boot the usb key. Worked for an iso boot via grub2 and a unetbootin installed key.

anticapitalista wrote:Try rootdelay=20 at boot menu

Good point anti, I will try that sometime.