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    BT headphones keep interrupting after finishing a call

    Hello all, I have a very annoying problem, but somehow difficult to explain. I use BT Jabra Evolve which I really like, have been using those with MacBook Pro and Slack with no problems. They have an articulated microphone arm, and when you join a call you will hear "lower the microphone to...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    yes you are totally right. So I had no issue actually. I just had a very old laptop and a misleading kernel panic error :) Thanks everyone!
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    So guess the computer I am typing this from!! Linux debian 5.10.0-19-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.149-2 (2022-10-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm so happy! My old Aspire is back to life! I have to apologize cause I don't know why I said I should have 1.75GB of RAM. First of all, that number does not make...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    I,m so happy. I was able to install a debian 11 32b via network, failed two times because of grub failed to installed, I just insisted and for some reason worked at the 3rd time. This is a huge step for me. I then was able to install inxi thingy and definitely there is something odd going on...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    Thanks all for your time. I'm back to tiny Core from a pendrive, for I could not get the debian to work, it seems that none of my partitions is bootable now. I'm going to focus into this single problem now: can any of you guess what could have gone wrong that my 1.75GB of RAM are actually...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    so my main motivation to go to the 64b is that the old Lubuntu 32b I was using could not have updates anymore. It was slow but working. I wanted to update the browser and soon I got stuck, many packages I was not able to download , I was able to update the distro several times but eventually I...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    Thank you, I am now trying both of your suggestions of using a pendrive of less capacity (4GB) and a Puppy distro. I have already tried like 7 different small distros, my problem is that when I try to install 64b I got the Kernel Panic no init found error. I can however run live linux from...
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    Cannot install linux on Aspire 5100 [SOLVED]

    Hello all, I've already given up my old Acer Aspire 5100 few times, but everytime I'm ready to dump it I decide to try again, because I don't understand why I cannot get this old laptop to work with a very light Ubuntu distro or something. It's a AMD Turion 62 X2 Mobile Tl-50, 64b, 1.75GB RAM...
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