LL on CD?

[SpAiK]

Hi, I'm a Linux Lite 1.0.2 user that has it installed on an old Compaq Armada e500 laptop. It is great for an antique like that, but now that I want to upgrade it to the latest version I see that it only fits on usb drives. As being a lite Linux distribution I always thought it would be kept lightweight. The thing is my laptop can't boot from usb and although it's fixable using Plop, that unique usb port is broken. Now I've installed a pcmcia usb expansion card, but this would not boot from that nor would it from Plop. So my last chance is to boot from a cd. Is there a way to shrink it down?

[newtusmaximus]

There was much debate earlier regarding data size of the iso.  i.e CD/DVD.USB,  I have found that loading LL 2.2 onto older laptops using a DVD drive encounters more issues ( stalls) than when previously using CDs.  Possibly down to read speeds of the drives??

I personally feel that LL would have been better leaving some of the "bulk" such a Libre office , Gimp, bulkier browsers etc. to the menu/system/Install Additional Software  route  and keeping the transition into all things penguin as easy and trouble free as possible.

i.e concentrate on drivers for  wireless. video cards, peripherals etc working straight out of the box.  This is something that puppy linux still seems to do very well  ( for very little size) and is my fallback position when LL  has installation issues.

Sorry to rake up this  again, but IMHO I feel it was at the heart of the LL project - KISS

[SpAiK]

Yeah newtusmaximus, I agree with you. Anyway I've found that if I change the pcmcia usb card to the second bay it is able to read usb drives, so there is hope. In fact I've been able to launch the live LL 2.2 from usb but it has crashed and left me on a command line. I may try again later and see what happens and post what is going on.

[Coastie]

... I personally feel that LL would have been better leaving some of the "bulk" such a Libre office , Gimp, bulkier browsers etc. to the menu/system/Install Additional Software  route  ..

I agree with this if Jerry wants to get Linux Lite down to CD size again. I was confused in January last year when I started using Linux every day and Linux Lite. I had to buy DVD writer so I could install Linux Lite and have never regretted it.

Even last January, I could understand the Install Additional Software. It is just that good. 8)

[Scott(0)]

Hi SpAiK,
Does your laptop have a floppy drive?  Apologies, I can now see a floppy drive would not solve your problem.
Scott

[SpAiK]

Ok, so I get to boot from an usb in the pcmcia card. It show the options menu and I select the first one live LL, then it shows the loading screen with "Linux Lite 2.2" and the dots and after that it goes to a command line:

Code:

BusyBox v1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

The iso has been burnt to the usb with Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.9

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Glad you could get Plop to boot off PCMCIA USB. I will have to try that on the laptop I'm on now.

UIAM, that model laptop does not support PAE, so you will be limited to the highest LL version based on 12.04 - which, I believe, is 1.0.8. No non-PAE kernel for 14.04, which the Beryl (2.x)  series of LL is based on...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[SpAiK]

I can boot through pcmcia but it will stop with the above mentioned error. I've seen that it tries to locate the medium from where to load the filesystem, it repeats the following line until it stops on the error.

Code:

/init: line 3: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found

[Wirezfree]

@ SpAiK,

If I'm not mistaken:

Code:

/dev/sr0

is referencing an Optical Drive, but you indicate you are using a USB stick to install from... so a bit confusing.

[avj]

This sounds like it hasn't found the hardware, you may need to delay the boot in the bios so it has time to register the hardware.