antiX will not install on my old computer

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To be fair, its a very old computer, probably from circa 2003, HP Compaq d530, Pentium 4 with 2Gb RAM. I tried antiX because it is “lightweight” but I can’t even boot the Live DVD. I have downloaded the “full” image. The boot process proceeds to the early stages but seems to fail at the display driver. I have attached images of what I am seeing on the screen. The internal DVD drive doesn’t work, so I’ve had to use an external one, but I have tried burning a second copy of the DVD as well as a different drive. The DVD boots fine on my main PC.

It this old PC under-specified for antiX?

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Try – At the boot menu, type

load=all bdev=sr1

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Thanks, that did seem to work and it now boots into the desktop.

I found some of the Menu hierarchy a bit puzzling, e.g. LibreOffice under “Multimedia” and components spread across to sub-menus? Internet tools under Internet | Internet? Why the extra level? Graphics and LibreOffice components under Games?

Performance seems to be reasonable considering the age of the PC at least I now know that I can run a Linux distro on it.

Thanks.

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There is definitely something wrong if you have that sort of menu hierarchy.
Did you check the md5sum of the downloaded and booted iso?

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Yes, I did check the MD5 sum using md5sum and it matched. I got the same menu hierarchy on both of the DVD’s that I burned and on both computers that I booted them on.

Filename: antiX-19.1_386-full.iso

Expected MD5: 0328cbcb092a5213a9ee4cc6c7906caf  antiX-19.1_386-full.iso
Actual   MD5: 0328cbcb092a5213a9ee4cc6c7906caf  antiX-19.1_386-full.iso

Other than requiring a 32-bit version, I wasn’t actually sure which image to download, but the most recent “full” image seemed a reasonable place to start from. It was downloaded from the “United Kingdom – Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick – Coventry” mirror.

I didn’t have that kind of issue with MX, but for the old PC I thought antiX might be a better choice as it is a “light” as opposed to “medium” weight distro.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by BitSeeker.
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If you look at this official video, you will see what the menu should look like.

antiX video

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hi bitseeker,

glad to see you got to the desktop. On the live I’ve seen menu corruption a few
times as well . hit the

refresh menu or update menu

option and the menu gets put right. this goes away once installed.

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