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Topic: Does not complete boot

I have an older computer with windows 95, I am using gujin to boot the gparted live cd because my bios does not support cd booting.

The program appears to boot properly at the beginning, and I get to the stage where I can choose normal boot, failsafe boot, etc. Regardless of which one I choose, it begins to boot and shows all the flyby text. However, when it gets to the stage where it says:

squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/05) Phillip Lougher


It simply stops. I let it sit and load for seven hours and it made no progress. The cd-drive is running and the light is flashing. Is this normal?

The system has 24Mb of ram and a 75Mz processor. I'm trying to partition my drive so that I can install linux, which is why I can only run the live cd version. Does anyone know why this will not load?

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Re: Does not complete boot

I am using version 0.3.6-7

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Re: Does not complete boot

Hmmmmm
I'm not sure about latest versions 0.3.6-x and 0.3.7-x, but 0.3.4-x versions were compiled to work on pentium II and later processors. Your 75MHz processor must be some of the first pentium or the late 486 series, intel or compatibles from other manufacturers (I think there were 486s up to 100MHz or so).

I'm afraid 24MB ram would be too low to support the GUI boot up + Gparted (same as above, not very sure for latest versions but previous versions were tested for 64MB and above).

So, I think to 3 possible ways:
1. Connect the hard drive to a computer with higher hardware specifications, do the partitioning work there and put it back into the original system.
2. Try to use any command line tools that need less ram than GUI tools.
3. You could look for "parted magic", that claims to have an option for low ram requirement.

I have an old pentium 133 desktop computer myself. Last year I tried to boot GParted livecd with no success. I didn't know what the problem was (inadequate cpu, low ram or defective cdrom drive because that last died some weeks later). Unfortunately I had no time to work on it further.

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