Old Laptop

Stephanie

Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:48:50 pm

I today have just been given a Toshiba Equium A60-155 ...

, it has Windows XP home 32bit installed also the power cable/adapter and the battery charges up OK, BIOS date is November 2006
System Spec > http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-p ... m-a60-155/
Now would Zorin Light run on this old laptop ? any advice appreciated

On my kitchen floor

Wolfman

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:00:59 pm

Hi,

Lite should work:

For the LXDE based versions (Lite):
266 MHz x86 processor
2GB of Hard Drive space
128 MB of system memory (RAM)
Graphics card capable of 640x480 resolution

http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-p ... m-a60-155/

Stephanie

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:05:11 pm

Thank you Wolfman so i need the LXDE based version 32bit ?

Wolfman

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:29:01 pm

Yes, Zorin OS Lite!.

See also:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4835

Stephanie

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:37:07 pm

Thank you Wolfman .. having a bit of a blonde day today

Wolfman

Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:10:51 pm

I have lots of those and I am grey!.

Stephanie

Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:25:05 am

Just about to install Zorin Light on this old laptop .. should I make 3 partitions first, HDD is 40GB ? .. 256mb swap, 14GB root, the rest home ?

Swarfendor437

Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:10:58 pm

If not using for crucial stuff and only OS I would plump for auto.

Stephanie

Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:15:51 pm

I think it will be just for surfing Swarfendor437

Wolfman

Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:29:33 pm

I would still go for 3 partitions and increase your swap to double whatever you have listed!.

Stephanie

Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:07:49 pm

double .. OK and I just found out this laptop does not have wireless so I’m going to have to buy a Wireless USB Adapter

any special make I need please ?

Wolfman

Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:34:30 pm

Hi,

anyone listed here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... sSupported

Stephanie

Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:52:27 pm

Thank you Wolfman

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:59:51 am

I’m on my second attempt installing Zorin Light and coming up to 4 hours, started at 7:15am, I may go for a lighter OS like Salx Linux on this old laptop, poor old thing is struggling :roll:

Swarfendor437

Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:51:44 pm

Try LXLE or old version of elementary OS - LXLE is only available as a torrent I'm afraid!

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:57:39 pm

Its still installing, this lappy only has 256MB RAM so if it installes I will see how it goes RAM upgrade is about £25 for 1GB

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:14:44 pm

Well Zorin light just wont install on this old laptop

and looked up system requirements for Lxle

LXLE is designed to have a low system footprint. In other words it doesn't take a lot of hardware resources to run well. Those saved resources are then spent on full featured capable programs to provide a complete desktop experience even on aging hardware, roughly any computer produced in the past ten years.

Todays' internet demands a great deal of resources to be an adequate online experience. Although LXLE could run on lower specs, it's usefulness online would be negligible.
Absolute Minimum Requirement for an 'OK' online experience.
Pentium 3 processor with at least 512 mb of ram and 8 GB of hard drive space.

Recommended system requirements for an 'adequate' experience.
Pentium 4 processor with 1gb or more of ram and 8 GB of hard drive space..

Wolfman

Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:34:07 pm

Or Bodhi Linux:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bodhi

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:00:50 pm

Hi Wolfman OK going to try that

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:41:50 pm

Bodhi Linux burnt with ImgBurn wont even boot (maybe its the file system as Zorin part loaded) so now wiping the HDD with DBAN 3 passes = about 2 hours

Wolfman

Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:42:55 pm

Hi Stephanie,

are you using a USB stick or disk?.

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:02:55 pm

Disk Wolfman BIOS does not support boot from USB, HDD is wiped now so will try loading something in the morning , Im wondering that now the HDD is blank Zorin Light may install ?

Wolfman

Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:12:01 pm

Hi,

when you see the boot logo that looks like a small keyboard, press any key and then F6 and select "acpi=off" and then try booting and see if that helps!.

See also:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Stephanie

Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:14:45 pm

OK will try that in the morning Wolfman , thank you

Stephanie

Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:58:38 am

I think I will have to leave this until I get more RAM for this machine

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