ZorinAck
Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:59:22 am
I burned the ISO image to a CD. I insert in my Omnibook XE2. I listen to the CD drive grind.
The opening screen turns to black and errors start appearing, the final, reluctant, digital kernels going off like lone firecrackers in a bag of burning, microwave-smoked puffs.
The Zorin error messages on boot-up attempt (so far) are:
"EDD: Error QQQ reading sector YYYYY."
The QQQ and YYYYY values in the preceding error statements, in order so far, are:
0a00 330474
0c00 330955
0f00 331637
1000 331944
e600 321165
e700 321318
e900 321901
eb00 322510
ef00 323542
f100 323911
f400 324651
f600 325175
f800 325795
(and, probably, etc., but I'm not going to spend the night watching this boot as it seems to be failing and is taking forever from the CD).
Does this mean that my Omnibook XE2 (HP) is not compatible with the Lite version of Zorin?
(Lite, because I've only got 256M of RAM possible in this system, and don't want to lock it up if I load a large program.)
I had always heard that Linux was cantankerous relative to components and drivers. Is this the problem?
I downloaded the ISO image file using my Android tablet. (It took four hours at a high speed cafe.) I burned it to a CD using InfraRecorder under Windows XP.
Any help? (I'm still using Windows 98SE on this old laptop, and had hoped that Zorin would be the path forward.)
It appears that I'm not likely to get Zorin to load, or there is some corruption or memory issue in my laptop, although it seems to run well under Windows 98SE.
Thank you in advance for any insight into how to proceed.
The opening screen turns to black and errors start appearing, the final, reluctant, digital kernels going off like lone firecrackers in a bag of burning, microwave-smoked puffs.
The Zorin error messages on boot-up attempt (so far) are:
"EDD: Error QQQ reading sector YYYYY."
The QQQ and YYYYY values in the preceding error statements, in order so far, are:
0a00 330474
0c00 330955
0f00 331637
1000 331944
e600 321165
e700 321318
e900 321901
eb00 322510
ef00 323542
f100 323911
f400 324651
f600 325175
f800 325795
(and, probably, etc., but I'm not going to spend the night watching this boot as it seems to be failing and is taking forever from the CD).
Does this mean that my Omnibook XE2 (HP) is not compatible with the Lite version of Zorin?
(Lite, because I've only got 256M of RAM possible in this system, and don't want to lock it up if I load a large program.)
I had always heard that Linux was cantankerous relative to components and drivers. Is this the problem?
I downloaded the ISO image file using my Android tablet. (It took four hours at a high speed cafe.) I burned it to a CD using InfraRecorder under Windows XP.
Any help? (I'm still using Windows 98SE on this old laptop, and had hoped that Zorin would be the path forward.)
It appears that I'm not likely to get Zorin to load, or there is some corruption or memory issue in my laptop, although it seems to run well under Windows 98SE.
Thank you in advance for any insight into how to proceed.