<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>Hi Rob,<br><br>I've dabble and checked out a lot of iso :)<br><br>main ones I still have the best luck with (without changing anything)<br>sabayon<br>system rescue<br>linux mint V4 (this still seems to work with all boxes I chuck at it)<br><br>Regards<br>John<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/1/09, Rob Dunne <i><rob.dunne@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Rob Dunne <rob.dunne@gmail.com><br>Subject: [plug] installing on old hardware<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Received: Friday, 2 January, 2009, 2:43 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Pluggers,<br><br>I am trying to upgrade an old machine (a Cyrix 6x86). It currently has<br>Redhat 7.1 on it.<br><br>It won't boot from a CD drive, so I am using a floppy with the Smart Boot Loader on it. This is all
working OK.<br><br>However, both the<br>* ubuntu desktop 8.04;<br>* ubuntu alternative installation CD<br><br>crash with a kernel panic message. I have tried the boot options<br>"acpi=off noapic nolapic" but this changes nothing.<br><br>I have also tried Puppy linux with acpi=off but it crashes with<br>"BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000"<br>I have tried a web search on this bug message but done see anything useful. It appears to be quite common, in different circumstances (virtual machines etc).<br><br><br>any suggestions?<br><br>Bye<br>Rob<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: <a ymailto="mailto:plug@plug.org.au" href="/mc/compose?to=plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a><br><a href="http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug" target="_blank">http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug</a><br>Committee e-mail: <a ymailto="mailto:committee@plug.linux.org.au"
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