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    frabbix

      A week ago I bought a Toshiba Satellite, S1400-103 for the sum of five Euros. It worked very well, even the rechargable battery was still rechargable. But it came with Windows XP and I wanted Linux. After some searching I found Antix, and I could even find a 32 bit version of Linux.
      I downloaded the thing and put it on a CD. The Toshiba wanted to read the CD and then asked a lot of questions. I answered as much as possible with the default. Everything seemed to work (very slow, but the Toshiba is a bit on the slow side). Finally it asked me to reboot. As instructed I removed the CD and did a reboot. The Toshiba responded with:
      Insert system disk in drive
      Press any key when ready

      … and I thought that was what was created: a system disk.

      Where did I go wrong?

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        hi frabbix,

        was grub installed to mbr on setup on it? Also check in the bios on the boot settings. I
        had some computers that after installing had to set the hard drive first in the boot order.

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        frabbix
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          Thank you! Yes, grub is in the mbr and hard drive as 1st boot device.

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            ok, trying to pinpoint the boot error.

            Which version/iso of antiX was used … core, base, full? will help others chime in.
            A inxi -zv7 output if possible.

            That’s also going to be a pretty limited machine with only 1GB max ram and the celeron cpu also.

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