Zorin OS Newbie

I am very new to Zorin OS and was trying to run live dvd or even install on a Sony Vaio Laptop, Pentium 4 2.0Ghz 384mb ram but when I press enter on either the Live boot or install directly I eventually get a white screen with a large Zorin Logo flashing in the middle I left the live boot for over 15 minutes but no change. How long should it take to boot live cd and how long to install.

Hi,

when you see the Zorin menu, press the "TAB" key and then type "nomodeset" or "acpi=off" then press enter and see if you can boot using either of those commands!.

Let us know if it helps.

Regards Wolfman

I tried that and I don't even get as far as the logo. The screen just goes grey then blank and thats it.

After about 15mins after clicking on install to hdd the zorin logo is there with a message saying trying to configure network settings but this message stays for a further 30mins.

This may be normal and it may take a couple of hours to install, I don't know.

I hope someone can help as I think zorin os is the perfect replacement for windows.

Hi,

did you burn the disk at the slowest possible speed?:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4771

Let us know.

Regards Wolfman

Yes I burned disc at slowest speed.

I think because you have only 384 Mb of RAM you may be struggling - I would advise Zorin Lite in this instance.

Zorin Lite does not even boot the live cd and wont install to hdd either I am using Firefox to download and the slowest I can write is 6X

Hi,

can you create a USB installer?:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Insta ... omUSBStick

See also:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Important, please read this:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6266

Regards Wolfman

Bearing in mind you only have 384 Mb RAM, plus the fact you have issues with Lite, I would give one of the following a try: Trisquel, Qelitu (Softpedia), or LXLE (the latter is based on Lubuntu)