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trapper

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Registered: 2018-01-29

Posts: 32

Second Life for old Notebook?

Hi, my wife is far away for educating and need only e-mail, so I have found a old HP Omnibook xe2 with Celeron 500Mhz, 192MB Ram and 5GB HD. The Q4OS website shows the minimal hardware requirements for Trinity desktop - 300MHz CPU / 128MB RAM / 3GB disk. So I download
Q4OS Centaurus, Trinity, install-cd - 32bit / i386, and install via CD. After first rebooting I only can see a black screen with a command line login. After login I try startx and get:
failed to set IOPL for I/O . . .
Fatal server error
no screens found
etc.
is there any way to get this thing going?
Many thanks in advance for your help,
also because I love Trinity so much.

eol1

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From: France - Du Cantal

Registered: 2019-11-17

Posts: 53

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

Don"t use any DE Gui  , just cli or tiny core , 192MB Ram !  , just use cli and lynx .

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/Q4os Centaurus TDE /Notebook Asus /Ram 4GB /dual core cpu

trapper

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Registered: 2018-01-29

Posts: 32

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

Thanks, but lynx I dont want to do it to my wife. Yes the Omnibook is over 10 years old. When I bought it had 128MB RAM and was shipped with Win 2000 which worked well. Later, I had no problem running Suse 9.2 on it, with KDE3! (By the way, it works better than my newer X201 with KDE4). I came to Q4OS because it claims to be able, easily replace these old Windows systems. This also say the Q4OS website with the minimal hardware requirements for Trinity. But the first question is, is on the install CD really only Trinity? because I have downloaded too "Q4OS Centaurus, Trinity, install-cd - 64bit / x64" for my X201, and I got KDE5 which I dont want! (first I have to install plasma, then I can switch to TDE)
Second question, because I dont want give up Q4OS so fast: Who has a tip where the matter hangs?

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,992

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

My guess would be something to do with the graphics display, although I'm not really sure how to solve the problem for you but I would start with trying the older Scorpion version (Live-cd) available from the Q4OS legacy downloads page, if you can get the Live-Cd to boot then you will be halfway there, obviously it can be installed from the live session if it boots ok and would give you a starting point to go on from.

trapper

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Registered: 2018-01-29

Posts: 32

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

Thanks, good tip, but unfortunately I cant find Scorpion Live-cd for 32bit / i386
(32bit / i686-pae will not work for sure  for a Celeron, I think)
In the evening I will try again with 32bit / i386 install cd

eol1

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From: France - Du Cantal

Registered: 2019-11-17

Posts: 53

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

Sorry for my last posts - Too much beer ...

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/Q4os Centaurus TDE /Notebook Asus /Ram 4GB /dual core cpu

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,992

Re: Second Life for old Notebook?

Thanks, good tip, but unfortunately I cant find Scorpion Live-cd for 32bit / i386
(32bit / i686-pae will not work for sure  for a Celeron, I think)
In the evening I will try again with 32bit / i386 install cd

It is my understanding that it will choose the correct kernel for your architecture, but I could be wrong as I have not tried to install on this type of hardware, I was just thinking it would be the easiest way to find out if the OS would run ok. Hopefully your second attempt at installation will bring you success.