XFCE Ubuntu 6.06.1 on 120Mhz Pentium 1 + 48Mb + 1.5Gb

[greggonzo1]

Hello. I had posted on your website about installing 6.1 on my HP N3270 notebook. I followed your instructions to the T. My problem is that I do not have any GUI installed. Using startx I get the error message "command not found".

This computer previously had 6.06 and then 6.1 on it just straight from the CD. It would run in GNOME. XFCE, KDE, but it was terribly slow. I didnt have anything on it so I found your site and went on to follow the instructions. Used KillDisk, Partitioned the drives and installed a server (command line) installation. I re-ded this 2x because the first time I only partially installed Xfce and I didnt want to mess things up further.

Please tell me how I can get a GUI on my system (syntax). I like the sound of the system you had set up. But have no idea how to get to that point.
Thanks for your advice
-Greg

[K.Mandla]

Hi Greg. It looks like there's some sort of quirk on straight XFCE installations under Edgy, where the standard startxfce4 command doesn't work (or isn't properly set up) at first. I'll see what I can do to get a solution. Cheers.

[CREEPING DEATH]

Ratpoison to the rescue!

After a quick sudo aptitude install x-window-system-core ratpoison firefox, I can get Turbo online now. I couldn't do it before, because I couldn't reach the Applications menu without a mouse.

It's clumsy for me, but it saves me $8 for a new serial mouse.

I also managed to shave the boot time (to less than 2:30 ) by stripping out most of ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard, and disabling just about every service I could find. Of course, my Firefox start time is probably the worst on the forum. ...

Whoa! What a hot rod!

Wow you have the same monitor I do!
Why are you using EXT3? My understanding is EXT2 or ReiserFS is faster on older machines.

CD

[Kowalski_GT-R]

hi,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=503144

not quite a 120Mhz, but still..... I was quite chuffed

solved the same mouse issue using a pci usb card and a cheap mouse

ciao,

Andre

[imperius69]

Nope, it predates PS/2 ports. There's no PS/2 mouse port and the keyboard connects through the old-fashioned five-pin DIN plug.

so u telling me that thing is older than my 286 ibm ps1 machine who as ps2 entry for mouse and keyboard

[K.Mandla]

so u telling me that thing is older than my 286 ibm ps1 machine who as ps2 entry for mouse and keyboard

Well, I thought that the PS/2 mouse port wasn't available until the PS/2 itself became popular, but I could be wrong. If you have a PS/1 with a PS/2 mouse port on it, that would be cool.

I said "predates" mostly because that PS/2 port was another proprietary shape that eventually became commonplace. I've found machines as new as 1996 or 1997 that still only had fat DIN ports and relied on riser boards for that mini-plug style.

Fun though, huh?

[imperius69]

would be cool no, its cool

Still have it, still works, with original mouse and keyboard

IBM PS-1
20 Mb HD, 1Mb Ram, 10 MHz CPU, Floppy drive, original DOS 4.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/1



mine is the 2011 model, but NO MODEM, so the wiki info is wrong about that.




PS - i wonder if there is a linux that works on it

[darrenn]

Would this computer work with the new xubuntu? How about the fluxbox version of linux mint?