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I am rather new to antiX, used it with much pleasure on my Pentium 4 desktop for a few months now. I recently decided to also try it out on an old laptop with an Intel Celeron processor. I downloaded antiX-21_386-base.iso, checked sums and key, and burned a DVD. So I did a regular install from the DVD iso on the HD, set up ufw firewall afterwards, then connected to internet and started to update and install some applications.
But some problems started to emerge when I tried to install the 4.19 kernel through the Package Installer.
– First problem being, which may be relevant for the developers of antiX, I could not see which kernel had been installed in the Package Installer. In other words, it gave no clue as to what kernel had been installed (so I could not select a kernel to deinstall). Checking system info showed that it was indeed 4.9. I then tried to install 4.19 through the package installer. However, the window of the terminal closed very quickly and nothing had been installed. Rebooting also showed that nothing had been installed. Grub had not changed.
After some trial and error with fresh installs, and attempting boot repairs (I first thought the problem could be related to having another partition on the HD with an ubuntu distro on it, but I now doubt that this is the case), I finally had an installation of antiX where the Package Installer did show a mark for the kernel that had been installed first (4.9.0-294-486). I then installed the 4.19 pae kernel (The Celeron M420 had a pae flag in the list, so I thought that would be allright). To my surprise both the pae and non-pae version were being installed as I saw in the grub menu. I then also installed the 5.10 kernel (because of another problem I will discuss in separate message). This also went fine as all options were there in Grub afterwards. But to my surprise the package installer could not keep hold of that and again it suggested as if not one of the listed kernels there had been installed, though I new better as I tested using Grub options and PC information.Any comments highly appreciated.
Brian Masinick
As I just suggested elsewhere, I recommend that you use the 4.9.0-294-antix kernel. From what I read about Intel Celeron processors, they MAY actually be 64 bit chips and certain models supposedly had some “acceleration” features, but not all of them worked well.
You can try the amd64 versions of the kernels; if they DON’T work, then use one of the other images.
All of my hardware now runs 64-bit so I no longer have to concern myself with such things. I did have some 2007-2008 systems previously that were among the LAST of the 32-bit systems; make sure that yours is in fact 64-bit. Regardless of the bit/processor length, do stick with the 4.9 series kernel; the newer ones simply will not work well with this particular system.--
Brian Masinick
iznit
the window of the terminal closed very quickly and nothing had been installed
The packageinstaller program creates a logfile which you can consult to possibly learn the details of the “failure” or the success.
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