Hello im rather new to the Linux os world. I currently am using Mint on my one laptop that i use regulary and I love it so far. SO much more user friendly than any windows system i have ever used and even for somone like myself who is very tech savvy I find it relativly straight forward to get to grips with it. Anything im unsure of or any issues I have come across with setting up the system have pretty much been resolved thanks to the advice and guidance of fellow linux users.
So on to the problem at hand here. OK so i have an old spare laptop that is able to run with all the background jargon Microsoft systems come with so in the world of windows this laptop is dead. However I believe that It would be more than able to be brought back to life using a Linux distro. The laptop in question would be used as basically a media centre which would be hooked up to my living room tv and used essentially to run iptv and other streaming formats and also my back catalgoue of media I have on hdd. so this notebook is a Zoostorm freedom 10-270 it has a Intel Atom 1.6 processor and it has 2gb RAM, and i have 250gb ssd for storage. So what distro would you suggest would be best suited for myself?
I have atttempted to install mint 20.1 however i have the 64 bit version which isnt any good for this laptop. I also tried puppy 5.2.8 i succesfully got it to boot on a cpl of occasions but i couldnt quiet understand how to install on to my hard drive. now when i am trying to run the distro i am just met with this.
/bin/sh: cant access tty; job control turned off.
I am now stuck i do not know how to get around this and i cant really find much inforamtion on what it is im looking at. please can someone help me here. Can anybody talk me through what i need to do to get it running again and somehow install it on to my hdd. Or even suggest a distro that may suit my needs and my laptop spec better please. Thanks in advance for ny help and info given i appreciate it
Thanks JACsdad
So on to the problem at hand here. OK so i have an old spare laptop that is able to run with all the background jargon Microsoft systems come with so in the world of windows this laptop is dead. However I believe that It would be more than able to be brought back to life using a Linux distro. The laptop in question would be used as basically a media centre which would be hooked up to my living room tv and used essentially to run iptv and other streaming formats and also my back catalgoue of media I have on hdd. so this notebook is a Zoostorm freedom 10-270 it has a Intel Atom 1.6 processor and it has 2gb RAM, and i have 250gb ssd for storage. So what distro would you suggest would be best suited for myself?
I have atttempted to install mint 20.1 however i have the 64 bit version which isnt any good for this laptop. I also tried puppy 5.2.8 i succesfully got it to boot on a cpl of occasions but i couldnt quiet understand how to install on to my hard drive. now when i am trying to run the distro i am just met with this.
/bin/sh: cant access tty; job control turned off.
I am now stuck i do not know how to get around this and i cant really find much inforamtion on what it is im looking at. please can someone help me here. Can anybody talk me through what i need to do to get it running again and somehow install it on to my hdd. Or even suggest a distro that may suit my needs and my laptop spec better please. Thanks in advance for ny help and info given i appreciate it
Thanks JACsdad