Problems installing PCLinuxOS Kde 2011.09 LiveCd

[psioniks]

I just downloaded PcLinuxOs Kde 2011.09 made a LiveCd. I'm trying to install it to my computer. It starts to load linux and when the blue bar is full it just stops there and the installation is blocked....any clues...

Thanks in advance!

[melodie]

Hi,

Have you tested the md5sum of the iso after you downloaded it ? And what do you see on the screen when it seems to stall, if you boot with the second option ? (move the choice from the first line to the second with the down arrow of the keyboard)

This option has for name "LiveCD - No Boot Splash". Are you waiting long enough for the hardware detection to be performed ? Usually it looks like it stalls just after udev line, and "looking for hardware... thinking... :-) " or a message looking very much like that.

[Abraxas]

Just a few thoughts. I take it you have another OS installed, to create a Live CD, or maybe not ? Do you have enough disk space is a obvious question to get out of the way.
Sometimes CD drives shutdown after an extreme session, maybe the speed CD was burnt at is too fast ? Just guessing at this point, without much to work with,i.e. your Computer environment.
Have you got Windows installed on the machine ?

As melodie suggested any feedback displayed would be very helpful, very little info to work with.

[menotu]

Further to the other posts - are you able to get to the desktop before trying the install or are you using the "Install" line from the boot selection menu?

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

Edit: Last night I downloaded both PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.09 and KDE-MiniMe 2011.09 and both were problem free installs.

I noticed the download size of the "full" KDE version has decreased by approx 50MB and minime by approx 35MB which is very cool indeed. (AS's new mylivecd compression app?? )

[psioniks]

Hey guys thanks a lot for your quick replies. I'm sorry for being not too clear, but I'm new to Linux.

So I'll try to explain better. I have and old computer pentium 4, 40G hard disc and 512 MB Ram. I have windows XP Sp3 installed.
So I'm using liveCd to install PCLinuxOs. I've tried to lunch it from the cd, tried the second option (without splash...), tried the last option to start directly with the installation, but the problem is always the same. I can see PCLinuxOS logo with the gray background and the blue bar that starts to fill up and it goes till the end....and then everything gets stuck here (I see the gray background with the PCL Logo and the full blue bar). I cannot get into the desktop.

Thanks again...

[menotu]

Hi psioniks

Have you done what Melodie asked about the md5sum check (and could check if the cd burn is okay)

512MB ram isn't a great deal, but, as important, do you happen to know what graphics card you are using and how much ram it has - or if it's sharing your main 512 ram? (which would mean even less main ram for the OS to use)

If it turns out it's a limitation on your hardware specs you may want to consider the PCLinuxOS versions of lxde or Openbox or xfce Phoenix as they run better on lower spec machines.

 

[melodie]

]Have you done what Melodie asked about the md5sum check (and could check if the cd burn is okay)

psioniks, you can use either or these tools to check the integrity of your iso, they both work under Windows:
http://www.md5summer.org/

http://wxchecksums.sourceforge.net/mainpage_en.html

512MB ram isn't a great deal, but, as important, do you happen to know what graphics card you are using and how much ram it has - or if it's sharing your main 512 ram? (which would mean even less main ram for the OS to use)

If it turns out it's a limitation on your hardware specs you may want to consider the PCLinuxOS versions of lxde or Openbox or xfce Phoenix as they run better on lower spec machines.

+1. The choice is : Xfce4, much lighter than KDE, has also many gui configuration tools, Lxde, is the lightest providing a Desktop Manager, which is quite good for daily use, Openbox, which is the Window manager used in Lxde, and is provided with a few light tools creating the desktop environment, therefore the lightest actually supported officially, but needs to learn a bit more when it comes to customize it.

My humble opinion : 512 MB ram I think will be best with a Lxde version, particularly as you are a beginner under Linux.

[psioniks]

Hi guys!
  I decided to do what melodie suggested. I installed Lxde and it works just fine!

Thanks again for your time and support... all best.

Ps. By the way the community looks great!

[melodie]

Hi guys!
  I decided to do what melodie suggested. I installed Lxde and it works just fine!

Congratulations ! And be you happy ever with your PCLinuxOS !

Ps. By the way the community looks great!

Just looks ?      (kidding).

What about editing your first post to add "(Solved)" at the end of the title ?

[x-D]

In future if you wish to upgrade to the KDE Version (let's face it, there's no contest), you will need to add in extra RAM etc, which if you know anything about Hardware, will not be a problem.

[AS]

I noticed the download size of the "full" KDE version has decreased by approx 50MB and minime by approx 35MB which is very cool indeed. (AS's new mylivecd compression app?? )

Hi menotu,

no, it's not the new app, but it was the result of an option of mksquashfs discovered while looking at mylivecd internals. The option is -b 1048576 (block size) that allow mksquashfs to gain approx 2.5/3.0% better compression, and it has been already included in mylivecd, therefore your own remaster should show a similar gain. (the gain apply only to mylivecd default compression, not when using --xz --gzip --lzma options).

AS