USB install/boot issue

[Member mrpieceofwork]

Hello all…

I just last night decided to finally take the plunge and try Linux, and in searching I found antiX to be a very good fit for my intro. In these few short hours, after much reading and downloading, ans then more reading, searching the forums, etc. I have “successfully” ??? mounted the iso for antiX-base 32bit on a USB stick, and am now able to boot into a boot screen… and run into a wall. I have not found a solution to this in the forums, hence this post.

I just get a looping “Automatic boot in… __ seconds” with “Tab to edit” above that. If I do that, I get a string which I assume I can alter, but to what? ALSO, if I press escape I get “boot:” which tells me it can’t find that kernel for anything that I type in.

My system is an old HP Vista (not 7 ffs) laptop, 2core CPU, 1GB RAM, 30 some GBs left of disk space, a 7GB recovery partition I never use, a dead battery (always plugged in, gets really hot, needs air under it else it won’t start at all), and a dodgy power connect (very easy to unplug it). It has a CDRW drive BUT I do not have any disks to burn, and only ONE 7GB USB stick, which I used UUI to put the iso on it with. UUI is the only program I can get to work on this POS.

Please help! Thanks

[Moderator caprea]

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There was a problem with the base version 32bit
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/having-trouble-with-antix-22-386-isos/

You could try the full version.
Also recommended for usb creation on windows are rufus or if rufus doesn’t work unetbootin .

[Member mrpieceofwork]

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forgot… it’s the latest distro 22
also, the “tab to edit” string… casper/vlug initrd=/casper/ilug cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt boot=casper fsck______… (I ran out of space on the paper)

[Member PPC]

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Wow – there’s to much going on and not enough info!

First of all, welcome to antiX – and you had bad luck, I never faild to ever “boot” (that’s the correct expression, meaning start your computer running the Operting system from a device, in this case, a USB stick) any linux distro either from a thumbdrive or CD/DVD- with one exception, when I tried to start a 64bits OS on a 32bits only machine…

…but it that was the case, you would probably see an error message about that problem, since it’s a dual core. You may have had a problem either downloading the .iso file or brurning it to the USB stick- I never heard of UUI… I’ll try to find something and get back to you- if possible- post a picture (ex: taken it your phone) of the screen you get when you try to boot antiX, that could be helpfull…

Edit: You wrote another post when I was writing this one – it seems that you get, in fact, antiX’s boot screen, so probably the iso was correctly “burned” to the USB stick…
The motherboard could be incompatible with antiX – there’s an alternative .iso, a forum user created, that runs on old VIA machines- that could run on your’s if that’s the case…

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• This reply was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by PPC.

[Member PPC]

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Found what I was looking for – try to burn antiX full 32bits .iso to your usb using “rufus portable” (from portablesapps.com/apps)- it will probably run on you Windows Vista, I hope…

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[Member mrpieceofwork]

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Thanks. If the full version doesn’t work, where can I find the “Via” iso?
And “UUI” is “Universal USB Installer” only one I could find that works. Seem like a pretty robust app.

[Member mrpieceofwork]

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I’m IN! Thanks for the help!

[Member seaken64]

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It is normal for the antiX Live USB to “count down” for a few seconds before it continues on to boot. This gives you the chance to move the selection highlighter to another selection. There is a “Safe” mode and a “Failsafe” mode, which sometimes allows for a successful boot to the desktop when the standard boot does not get you a GUI screen.

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