Install troubles Solved

[ghengiscoin]

Hello,
I'm new here and somewhat inexperienced with Linux.

I'm attempting to install the 2011-09 Full Monte, not sure it can be done. My hardware:

Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with ATI Radeon 9x 3d video card - not sure how much memory - 32-bit worst case
installed an Intel 2200 BG Wifi card to get around previously experienced Broadcom issues. 1 GB RAM, 250 Gb hard drive.

When I attempt to install it hangs at the NET-SMTP or the postfix OK next step point.

It seems to go further (to postfix) when I type in 32-bit on the Boot options line which appears when I set the 'safe settings mode.' I freely admit that to be pure guesswork.

Oddly, the thing came up when I first tried it and again after two attempts when I tried to install to the HD.

At this point, I suspect a possible corrupted CD or the fact that on one attempt, I got some errors stating that the root was invalid and that the file type was unrecognized.

I really like the graphics and the KDE setup in general, as it offers the most options for the different desktops and window control. However, I have tried the Fedora distribution also, and it is very buggy. Other distributions like another distro work, but don't offer what I want. Again, I may not *get* what I want out of this machine.

I don't know how to do a checksum, or utilize bit-torrent on Windows to reload - the standard connection is far too slow.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Best,
Larry

[ghengiscoin]

Hello again,

It looks as though my laptop wasn't powerful enough to handle the Full Monte install (even though I have 1 GB not 1 MB RAM).

I am up and running on the machine with different KDE distro and happy (finally) with this setup.

[YouCanToo]

The dell inspiron 600m should have plenty of guts to run PCLinuxOS..As far as doing a checksum, a web search would of turned up plenty of information on how to do it on Windows, like this http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html#windows On a linux system it is as simple as after downloading CD pclinuxos-kde-2010.12.iso From the command line (console window) run the following:

md5sum pclinuxos-kde-2010.12.iso

to which you would get back... 72f39788908f11ccc630bd5bfef2d53e pclinuxos-kde-2010.12.iso if it were ok. Then you simple match what you got to the MD5sum file that was with the iso file you downloaded.  The numbers should match, if not you have a bad burn or a bad download.

[ghengiscoin]

Thanks for responding YouCanToo. I know I'm a little impatient and somewhat less than rule bound. Apologies for remarks about the Fedora distro and laziness with the checksum. Will check it out and decide whether it's worth the extra system resources compared to what I'm currently running, which is just a PCLinux KDE desktop sans nekkedness :-)

[YouCanToo]

There is a lot of good information about PCLOS on the PCLinuxOShelp Knowledge Base here http://pclinuxoshelp.com also the monthly magazine has tons of information just for the looking http://pclosmag.com