On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:05:22 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:

I have a Pentium machine here and I'm trying to install Lubuntu on it but without success.

I've looked at this page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods and have added the -- forecepae command to the end of the command string but all I get is a cursor in the top left of the screen and nothing else happens.

I've had other distros working on the machine - I installed MX last week - but thought I'd have a play with something else but I'm not having any success.

What's the remedy here?

The remedy is to install something else!

Looking at the Lubuntu page again, it suggested Bodhi (I tried that on another machine some time ago and didn't like it for some reason that I can't now remember) and LXLE. I already had a copy of that so dd'd it to a USB stick, and it's on, working and I've even managed to persuade an old Packard Bell scanner to work with it.

I didn't need to do anything with forcepae so I don't know what went wrong with Lubuntu. But it's of no importance now.

I did have Absolute linux running on it yesterday but wasn't 100% happy with that hence the desire to play with something else.

The machine was previously in service with my elder sister running Windows Vista. I didn't like the idea of her running that so gave her a machine running Windows 10 and took the old machine off her. It's much better employed running LXLE than Vista so I can now put it on cheapcycle.