Celena Freezes at 15% Everytime When trying to install

Stupidkid · Post by **Stupidkid** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:55 pm

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

900i · Post by **900i** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:08 pm

How much ram you got?

Stupidkid · Post by **Stupidkid** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:10 pm

256mb
I was told it should run fine

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:15 pm

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 · Post by **Stupidkid** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:17 pm

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 · Post by **900i** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:47 pm

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.

Post by **merlwiz79** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:30 pm

900i wrote: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 · Post by **Stupidkid** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:41 pm

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

So cassandra?

Post by **deadguy** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:06 pm

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 · Post by **Lolo Uila** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:04 am

Cassandra XFCE Community Edition.

...or more RAM.

Aloha, Tim

kotik · Post by **kotik** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:26 am

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 · Post by **Lolo Uila** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:35 am

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 · Post by **kotik** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:47 am

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 · Post by **kotik** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:05 pm

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 · Post by **kotik** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:55 am

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.