Celena Freezes at 15% Everytime When trying to install

[Stupidkid]

Third time. and i have it just sitting on that screen. Mouse. Screen everythings frozen. Kind of a bummer. any ideas?

[900i]

How much ram you got?

[Stupidkid]

256mb
I was told it should run fine

[newW2]

Celena did not have an XFCE desktop environment (DE), and XFCE is the only DE that may work with that small amount of RAM.

[Stupidkid]

I was expecting that, From when they use to have the Requirements up, i remember wanting it, but not being able to.


What would you suggest other than Mint? Fedora? Ubuntu?

[900i]

I think you might struggle with a live-cd install with that amount of ram, but I could be wrong. You need to go for something that gives you a straight install, but I don't know which Distro's do that nowadays, except Slackware.

[merlwiz79]

I think you might struggle with a live-cd install with that amount of ram, but I could be wrong. You need to go for something that gives you a straight install, but I don't know which Distro's do that nowadays, except Slackware.

I have had people tell me the installed Cassandra XFCE with 128 MBs of RAM.
You just have to make a swap partition before using the Live CD.

[Stupidkid]

I've already completely Removed Windows and formated my drive.

So cassandra?

[deadguy]

I had the same problem with celena with 256MB of ram
if you can up it to 384MB or more it should install fine.

[Lolo Uila]

Cassandra XFCE Community Edition.

...or more RAM.

Aloha, Tim

[kotik]

Hi all - my first post here ;]

Donn't want to create new topic - i post here.

So, unfortunately my friendship with Linux started with problems ;]

I decided to try mint - the live CD worked perfect, and now I'm in love with mint
After few hours of tests i wanted to install it. I passed 6 of 7 steps and it hung (after user import from XP - which I did not).

I can abort install, can move the mouse pointer, pointer itself works (i mean that dots in circle) - but nothing else.
HDD doesn't work, cd stops... and nothing happens

Please help me to solve this, or let me know where to look for solution.

My config:
XP Pro (on first partition - wanna get rid of it asap)
P 1,4GHz
384 MB RAM
GF 440MX (64MB)

[Lolo Uila]

You didn't mention which version of Mint you were trying to install, but with that amount of RAM I would recommend Cassandra XFCE Community Edition. It isn't as resource heavy as the GNOME or KDE versions. Should run nicely on your system.

Aloha, Tim

[kotik]

thx Lolo - didn't mention cause it's also Celene mint 3.1
Hoped it will work on my PC.

But frankly it's strange cause LiveCD version worked perfect even better than XP

Maybe problem is in the Migration Assistant? System hangs after it.
Also strange is that i can abort the install and work on LiveCD after it without any problems.

Well I'll try ver. you mentioned.

[kotik]

I've just tried Casandra.

And I have the same problem! It hung in step 6 - after creating account and password.

Damn.

Completely dunno what to do :/

[kotik]

Ok guys ;]

Thats odd but I'm total newbie in linux so perhaps it was obvious.

I just did every thing the same but did not use spaces in account name

Dunno why, but worked and I'm now using (better to say learning) Celena.