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MikeS999
August 19th, 2009, 07:26 PM
Has anyone successfully installed on this model?

It has a P166 Mhz MMX processor with 2Gb of HDD

When attempting a low-spec video loads it gets as far as [14.749072] and freezes.

The preceding message is "[14.749023] Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes..."

The version on the CD is Ubuntu 8.

As a newbie, I always understood that one of the great redeeming features of Linux is that it could make old machines usable again and avoid the dustbin - and it would be really great to get this one running again!

Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.

amsum
August 19th, 2009, 08:15 PM
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on Toshiba L305-S5913 model and its working like a charm.

amsum
August 19th, 2009, 08:22 PM
your configuration is definitely too low for ubuntu 8. the 2gb memory i believe is not enough. you must rather try xubuntu. It takes 1.5 GB.