This is a continuation of my attempt to install AntiX on my old Compaq Presario 1255 (K6-2 processor). I had tried M8.5 and it installed without any problems... BUT I couldn't get the USB wireless network to work (needed ndiswrapper). So it was suggested that I use M11... now here I am... but right off the start, I'm having problems with the installation. (EDIT: I'm using antiX-M11-core-squeeze-486.iso -- it appears to be the only option for older computers )

I first tried using the install AntiX option... I was surprised to see that it was a text installer, but I've worked with Linux for about five years so I was fairly confident in making it work. However, inadvertently I chose a partition that actually was a swap partition and even though AntiX continued the installation process there were huge"not enough room" type of errors.

So I tried the Live AntiX option thinking that I would boot to a desktop... but I wasn't, it was the same command line as the first option. No problem. This time I had the partitions written down and went through the installation without a problem. HOWEVER, when I tried to reboot there was only one option that Grub presented (not sure if this is the way it should be) and it sent me to the prompt AGAIN -- I had for sure expected to see the Slim manager. Okay so I enter my user name and pwd at the prompt and then entered startx. Not recognized. I tried a few other things, but no go. I ls the files and directories and it appears that all has installed...

What am I doing wrong!?

antiX-core does not have a gui. It is intended for those that basically want to build up from the barebones.

For a full desktop antiX you will need antiX-M11-486, but it isn't ready yet.

The latest M11-486 is available as a torrent download from here:


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It is a test release though and there have been changes since.

Thanks, I'll give it a try...

Sorry if this turns up to be a duplicate... somehow lost the message that I first wrote.

I tried installing M11 with the version that includes a GUI and desktop... everything went fine. However, just as in M8.5, I ran into problems installing my wireless USB. I did use ndisgtk to install the windows driver... it complained that there was no ndiswrapper when first installing, but the windows driver appears to have installed anyway. However, the ndiswrapper module does not load at boot and/or is recognized by any of the wireless setup apps. Could it be that ndisgtk is not compatible with the version of ndiswrapper used in M11?

However, the ndiswrapper module does not load at boot

I did
as root in terminal to get ndiswrapper to load at boot when I used it the one time I used it. You may need to do that command in AntiX 11 also (I did this in 8.5)

I tried: but it didn't help.

Shouldn't the command: modprobe ndiswrapper work in M11? It just says that ndiswrapper is not found. Yet... isn't the default intalled package ndiswrapper-common the same thing?

Yeah. Maybe modprobe ndiswrapper-common is the command instead of ndiswrapper alone.

Already tried that too.