Trying to Install antiX 21

[Member antixjim]

I have run into some problems trying to install antiX 21 on a 20 year old Compaq 5WV254. I cannot get the BIOS to boot from a USB flash drive and I was unable to get the “PLOP” program to work. I am out of DVD’s so I cannot burn an ISO to a DVD. I tried reinstalling antiX 19 base from a CD-R that I used before, but got in error (INIT not found). I tried installing antiX 21 base on to a CD-R, but it will not fit. I burned antiX 21 Core to a CD-R, but ran into the same problem as the antiX 19 (INIT not found). I could really use some help on this. I am more than happy to start with antiX 19 Base or antiX 21 Core, but I need to know what to do to get past the INIT not found error. Once I get to the live enviornment, I should be able to install antiX without anymore problems (assumeing I can get the wifi working).

Success (so far). I am attempting a reinstall of antiX 19 off my old CD-R. This time I selected “Failsafe Boot” to start the live session. I was able to use a right click to get to a menu and start the Installer. antiX 19 is now being installed and may go to completion. Once that happens I will attempt to get the wifi working. It is a Netgear 3100 dongle that apparently has a Broadcom wifi on it. The last time I had to enable a Broadcom wifi on antiX 19 I was eventually successful. I will edit this post if that is successful.

Success. Only I do not have the menu button and taskbar at the bottom and have not found were I selected the Broadcom drivers that I had before. At least I got it working this far.

• This topic was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by antixjim.
• This topic was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by antixjim.

[Moderator caprea]

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Thank you for posting the solution for the “no init found” problem.

There may be a way to install antiX21 on this Compaq without plop if you have both , an antiX21 core CD and an antiX21full or base live usb.See here
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/iso-is-too-bloody-big/#post-80837

[Member antixjim]

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Caprea – I tried what you suggested to install antiX21 and it did work. It even got past the INIT without hanging, but it did hang on loading /dev, so I did have to resort to Failsafe Boot again. It did work though, so thank you for the suggestion. Now to get the wifi working. I will not be able to tackle that without dragging the computer and everything else into another room where I can connect it to the router with an LAN cable. So I will not be doing that right away.

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