My girlfriend's Windows 98 had the digital equivalent to a stroke, and I ran
out of cusswords trying to re-install that OS from the CD-ROM. The computer
is an Acer Aspire with an AMD i586 or i686 processor (K6?), 32Meg of RAM and
a single expansion slot used by a winmodem. I successfully installed DOS 5.0,
which tells me that the hardware is more or less OK.
It generated kernal panics when I tried installing Caldera eDesktop 2.4, so I
tried Red Hat 7.1. The install was about 98% done when Anaconda generated a
couple of error messages, then the system terminated. I wasn't watching the
monitor when it went south. A copy of the dump is attached for what it's
worth. The machine won't boot into Linux, although it goes into DOS without a
hitch. I suspect the Red Hat install is DOA.
What is a good "lightweight" distribution for a cheapie machine like this?
All it really needs to do is run KMail, a web browser, Pixie, and some simple
multimedia apps. Xandros comes to mind, but there may be a simpler way out.
Suggestions?
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