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Wiz57 wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:14 am

And to prove your old Acer Aspire One AOA150 still has life, I'm currently on MINE!

Zombie Computer, very fitting for Halloween.

SUCCESS! slacko-7.0 Loaded!


This is all about old computers with flaky USB systems or old failing USB sticks.


The only thing I changed was using a new Microcenter 64GB USB. I thought that was a long shot, but I think that was it.

Thanks Everyone for all the Help!

I truly appreciate all ...

I tried Slack files:

slacko-7.0.iso
slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso
slacko-5.7.0-PAE.iso

Downloaded from...
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/

I used UNetbootin on...
SanDisk Cruser 4GB...
formated in FAT32

Each time they didn't get past this screen:

Wiz57 wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 12:09 am

I have that same Acer Aspire AOA 150, Intel Atom CPU, 1 gig RAM...

COOL! It's good to know it is possible. Mine has WindowsXP on it too. I will try the Slackware Puppys. And I have started formatting the USB drive as FAT32. Thanks!

Wiz57 wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 12:52 am

...I wonder what type/size USB drive maxthrottle is using??

I have used three USBs:
- generic free USB, I got as swag, 4GB (I am going to stop using this one, it has had errors in the burn process)
- SanDisk Cruser micro 2GB
- SanDisk Cruser 4GB

I have started formatting them in FAT or FAT32

You have not told us what you used to create the USB, will assume Unetbootin.

Yes, Unetbootin.

1. try the USB in another computer.
2
3. try a different USB, repeat #1

I started over with a different USB and tried it in the old netbook and a newer Ubuntu machine, and it gave the same error in ...

Well, now I am getting a different error message. I am going to pretend this is progress.

Wrong program, try again using either Unetbootin or Rufus.


Me, I would recommend UNetbootin. I've used it very successfully for installing Puppy on several occasions in the past.


First, thank you both for the replay, and the knowledge. I will try that now.

Second your avatar made me ...

I have a very old netbook that I would like to breathe new life into. Anybody know what I am doing wrong?

SYSTEM:
ACER Aspire One AOA150
x86 based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1595 Mhz
BIOS Date 2008
Total physical Memory 1024 MB

https://www.miniputer.com/Acer ...

I had this issue earlier this year.

My screen-broken HP M$ windoz Laptop wouldn't boot from USB - and it couldn't run the Linux *.iso DVD's either (even Debian!!). The only USB options were to boot from an external CD drive or HDA. It wouldn't boot from thumb-drives no matter how you set the boot ...

So for I have tried the following OSs:

BionicPUP 64-8.0
VoidPuppy 64 22.02
F96-CE_4
antiX 23.2
tinyCore
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 4.10
Windows 89

The only ones that worked were tinyCore and Windows 89.

Will this CD boot the machine on which it was burned?


No. But it gets much further. It loads the files to ram ( done ), but then it goes to a black screen with an underscore in the top left corner, and stays that way.


@maxthrottle :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels".

Whilst ...

How did you burn the ISO image to the CD?

Give specific details?

What operating system running what burning program?

Look at what is on the CD for files.

Should be a bunch of different files on the CD.

Are all the names in lower case letters?


I burned the iso to a CD using Windows 10 built ...

rcrsn51 wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 8:40 pm

As a general rule, very old machines need older Puppies. I don't know if the newest Puppies still support CD booting.

I would look at BionicPup in the Mainline section.

I will have a look, thanks.
EDIT: bionicpup64-8.0-uefi didn't work.

I am new to Puppy. I have a VERY old system and I was hoping that Puppy would run on it. Puppy starts trying to load from the CD Drive, but eventually ends with the error message below. Does anyone have an idea of what I should try next?

end Kernal Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs ...