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    Booting from grub

    Wow thank you. I'm checking the os out right. Now
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    Sparky not running steam

    Thank you I'll do that as soon. As my wifi is back online tomorrow. I'll keep you updated on the results
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    Linux distro for very small pc

    Yass We are getting somewhere. I'll see about all of this tomorrow
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    Sparky not running steam

    Using Aptus. I just double click on steam and after some command runs, I get an action completed notification. That's it. It really is that simple
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    Linux distro for very small pc

    Yes It would seem That The last Lubuntu distro to support this computer is infact 10.04 according to wikpedia. and so our our quest ends. Lets do this again sometime. And thanks for all the support.
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    Booting from grub

    As promised. An update on how things went When I typed "update-grub" I got the error: can't find command 'update-grub' I got the dame error for "grub-install .dev/sda2
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    Booting from grub

    I will try your method immediately. and I will keep you updated. I just started using Linux 2 days ago and i'm falling inlove with the whole thing. everything about it is just interesting to no extent
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    Booting from grub

    Thank you so much
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    Linux distro for very small pc

    I have to love linux and everything about it. It is most fun an interesting running into problems and then trying to solve it with an entire community backing you up. Small update. The system above is able to run ubuntu 10.04 released in April 2010. Now the following steps will be to...
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    Linux distro for very small pc

    It's not the question of running a current os. That is too easy. Just run core OS it works on most anything. And it's current. What I really want to know is what is the latest version of lubuntu that I can run. I think the real question is when did lubuntu stop support on this kind of...
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    Sparky not running steam

    Hi guys I am running sparky linux on my laptop following specs. CPU 8x Intel(R) core (TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz RAM 8125MB (398MB used) It is running Linux 4.9.0-8 amd64 (x86_64) Sparky linux When I run steam. Absolutely nothing happens. Like really nothing. I double click and nothing...
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    Linux distro for very small pc

    Hey guys. I'm looking for a lubuntu flavour for my very tiny pc. Current specs are. American Megatrend pc. It's running a vortex A9130 processor at 933MHz. The ram is 992 mb 366MHz. Main Storage is Kingston 32Gig MicroSD Any idea what I should try? The latest version is not compatible with...
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    Booting from grub

    Well this raises a new problem. The original operating system installed has no drivers installed. This means no internet. No internet means no downloading. No downloading no update. One huge cycle. The person who had the device before I did, did not follow the necessary steps. Thank you for...
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    Booting from grub

    One more update. It would seem as though the cpu is not compatible with this kernel. As the pc informed me after booting a dd image created in Rufus. Seems I havteto go back to square one and find a very lightweight linux distro for this pc thanx for all the help guys
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    Booting from grub

    Ok Etcher did not work. It fails to run on sparky linux. But. My sister happens to have a windows pc. I can try to run Rufus on that. And still keep you updated
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    Booting from grub

    Unfortunately. As clued up about things I am. I'm still just a noobie. I dont have windows OS on any of my devices. I'm using sparky linux at the moment and I'm content. I installed on my main PC 2 days ago. For the smaller pc. I'm using a 32Gig cruzer blade SanDisk (USB). The PC seems to be an...
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    Booting from grub

    Ok good news. I figured out that vmlinuz lies under casper/ I even initialised the ram using "initrd casper/initrd.lz" after these actions I type boot just to find myself back at the start. What am I doing wrong?
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    Booting from grub

    Hi guys. As just a newby I actually have an advanced problem. I started by downloading lubuntu-16.04.2-desktop-i386.iso The system I intend to use is quite old and small. Using woeusb I created a bootable USB. When I boot from USB on my older PC I get "GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u1...
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