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prkos
May 5th, 2018, 12:39 AM
These are the options I see in BIOS:


Floppy
LS120
Hard disk
CDROM
ZIP100
USB-FDD
USB-ZIP
USB-CDROM
LEGACY LAN
Disabled


Hardware:
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor
2600+
1.61GHz
512 MB RAM

It has old Win XP but I plan to knock that down completely. XP can display this USB contents.

I made an USB startup disk for lubuntu-18.0-desktop-i386.iso
I tried it on my (newish) desktop and it seems to be working (lubuntu booted), although the system I'm trying to install on is over 10 years old.

C.S.Cameron
May 5th, 2018, 12:55 AM
Can you make the drive first Hard Disk?
That usually works for me.

prkos
May 5th, 2018, 01:22 AM
Thank you for suggesting it, I tried again and I could do that. (When I tried it the first time I must have had the 64bit iso).

I got this message:


Missing parameter in configuration file. Keyword: path
gfxboot.c32:not a COM32R image
boot:

After which I found this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/544414/missing-parameter-in-configuration-file-keyword-path

And the accepted answer worked! (hit Tab, type live, hit Enter). Live lubuntu is up, now lets see how installation goes :)

Thank you C.S.Cameron!