antix 12 or 13 doesnot instal on sony vaio pcg-954c notebook
i am new to linux i have this nice old notebook in prety good condition it has a pentium 3 procesor and 512mb ram
it made for windows me , i tryed to instal antix 20 times now , after the start screen it start to load the kernel etc
dan it stops and doesnot do any thing any more , tryed slack pupy too , did also not work , tryed some other linux
did also not work , put in a windows xp cd and it instals without trouble ,is just a bit too heavy to run for the machine
tryed antix 12 on a old desktop pc and love it , it installs quick and works like a shunsine
would love to run in on this 11 year old notebook , anybody can help here?
thnx __{{emoticon}}__ grtz seel34

Post the specs of that box, ie CPU and RAM and we'll see if we can help get it working.

hi , thnx for the quick response
specs 512mb ram[ 2x256]
intel 82815 graphics controller
intel pentium 3 proccesor 496 mhz ' says systeem info

notebook is about 11/12 years old and came with windows me and has a dvd rom
got it from a friend with 64mb , upgraded it to the max of 512mb


sony vaio pcg-954c says on the sticker on the back

model pcg fx103 says it under the display


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grtz seel34 [ko]
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i tryed to instal antix 20 times now , after the start screen it start to load the kernel etc
dan it stops and doesnot do any thing any more

When you say try to install 20 times. Are you actually saying when booting the live cd?

If so. What are the last few messages during Quits?

Just wondering because I have one emachine desktop computer that stops at

waiting to load /dev

with antix newer kernels. I installed AntiX 11 on it and use a 2.6.38 liqourix kernel on it.
Nothing newer will boot on that Desktop computer. I have tried via smxi.

I am not saying this is what may be stopping you from booting. Just relating what happened
to me on only one of the many computers I run AntiX on.

seel34 did you md5sum the iso download and burn to a good cd at a slow speed also

seel34 wrote:i tryed to instal antix 20 times now , after the start screen it start to load the kernel etc
dan it stops and doesnot do any thing any more , tryed slack pupy too , did also not work ,

We need to know exactly where the freeze occurs. Can you describe the"start screen"? Does it look something like the image I attached?

If so, then you should try running the memtest program and see what happens.

The fact that you can install XP indicates the hardware is probably working. It is strange that all flavours of Linux fail. The Pentium III instruction set should be fine.

Assuming you are burning the Linux cds yourself but the XP cd is commercial then the problem might be associated with how you burned the cds or an incompatibility between the drive you burned the cds on and the drive in your laptop.

OTOH if all the Linux distros fail when loading the kernel, it indicates that there is a common failure mechanism and it is not just badly burned cds. Maybe there is some BIOS setting that needs to be changed.

Here is a link to some
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that may be useful. If this doesn't help, I suggest you Google(Linux sony vaio pcg-954c) and see if someone else has other tricks you can try.

i boot from live cd ,i tryed the live cd [12] on a desktop and ir worked fine on the deskt but not on the notebook , now i am trying to boot with the 13 ,cd burned at slow speed , my xp version is also burned with the same burner




after a bit i get this screen


and nothing happens anymore , no hd actifity,tryed to instal it on a formated hd ,tryed with slack pupy ,came a bit further
but it stoped with no graphic driver ,then i put in the xp cd and it installed flaw less , but is to haevy to run
and i would like really to run in on linux

here some pics of the laptop









i am a real linux newby and not so familiar with the linux terms as kernel etc etc ,my technical level is
that i can chance a motherboard from a desktop etc , put al forms of windows on it , drivers programs etc etc
i am dutch and live in amsterdam ,but understand english prety good
regards seel34

Have you tried removing all the boot options?

do you mean in the bios? remove all except boot from cd rom?
regards ko __{{emoticon}}__

No, in the pic:



close to the bottom, there is a line that says Boot options, and a long string of...boot options.
You can"adjust" that line, or get rid of it completely, with the backspace, or arrow buttons.
If you remove all of it, and just type ro, or nothing at all, I dunno, but it might work?

Uh, at least it won't hurt anything, right?

If that don't work, maybe try the cli-install (init3) and see if it does anything then? if that works, you will get something like:

#yourname@pc : where you can type stuff

Just curious. How long have you waited when it says booting the kernel before giving up. It might take a couple of minutes to get past that point is why I ask.
My choice on boot up is antiX-fluxbox-no-icons. when I boot live. That should not make a difference.

I think memtest is under Boot options that Bitjam and rust collector Have mentioned. Like Bitjam said. Run a memtest first for about 3 to 4 hours to see if any failures occur due to bad ram. That is why memtest is available on boot.

Vaios ,Emachines, and Aplle/Mac can be a PITA sometimes because they are of a different breed of hardware.

The page I linked to above was from a person who got a Sony Vaio PCG-Z505LE to boot Linux. They said that you have to use F2 to get to the BIOS when the machine starts to boot and then turn off Plug-and-Play (PnP).

People have tried to boot Linux on just about any kind of computer imaginable. If you are having trouble getting Linux to boot then you should Google(Linux <computer model>). You should find instructions if people have had success or war stories from a series of failures.

went to the bios put of pnp and am running memory test now [memory is new just bought it on ebay ]
memory test says pentium 3 645,9 mhz memory 510 246mb chipset intel i815
ecc of thnx for all the info will report back after test is done
regards seel34 __{{emoticon}}__

still running memory test , tryed the sugestion to google linux and model name
found this

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does this mean its not possible to boot antix on this sony??? __{{emoticon}}__

regards seel34

memory test ok ,still not able to install,tryed the ro option in boot then i got the memory test again ,tryed to leave the boot line empty with backspace
got a lot of lines till 0.057180] acpi:added , i wait for 10 min of more when it stops ? any more sugestions ????
i still want it to run on antix __{{emoticon}}__ grtz seel34