Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

[Jonathan Marsden]

On 06/15/2013 10:40 PM, Iberê Fernandes wrote:

> This desktop has been turned off for 2 years ...

> Although it has 1GB RAM, lubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso  crashes when on
> slideshow. ...

> Any ideas what else should I do to install Lubuntu on this AMD desktop? 

Sounds like a hardware issue to me.  I would carefully blow out all the
dust that collected in those 2 years, and then boot from CD and run
memtest for several hours (maybe 24 hours) to check for intermittent RAM
issues.  I would also look carefully at all capacitors on the
motherboard to see if any have expanded or "blown" (got a hole in them),
which can happen to older motherboards, some electrolytic capacitors
used in that era were not always high quality and can dry out and then
stop doing their job, making the machine unstable.  If the board has the
capacitor issue, it is basically impractical to repair it.

If you think the issue is with the installer and not with the hardware,
you could put it on the Internet (behind a firewall router) and then
update it (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade), reboot, and try
upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 with

  sudo do-release-upgrade

and see if that works.  If it does, you could then do the same thing
again to get from there to 12.10 if you want to run 12.10.

Jonathan