Installing Linux On A Retro Laptop

Reviving A 12 Year Old Laptop With Linux!
Using Linux to breath new life into a 12 year old laptop! Dell inspirion 10 mini. Or as I like to call it the "red-dell-redemption".
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[@frankeke8541]

>I have ubuntu on this drive >Installs linux mint

[@StrangeIndeed]

Linux Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, so I guess he's technically correct

[@TheRenPaiN]

I think at some point he just tried some distros to see what works.

[@alwinvillero4404]

wtf just happened

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

@@StrangeIndeed Debian based now I think, after the Snap Package bullshit.

[@grilledcheese4197]

They are the same

[@prakyathkantharaju1601]

word of advice installing Linux, go to bios and disable secure boot. this will help you not get the black screen after boot.

[@Kasiarzynka]

Do you need to disable secure boot for stuff like Ubuntu though, I thought it was only necessary for certain distros (like Kali, obviously).

[@mandem9319]

@@Kasiarzynka basically always disable secure boot. It messes up more than commonly known by basically most people. Not just for Ubuntu/linux/kali/etc).

[@jimdaniels4595]

@@Kasiarzynka during the installation process it is wise to turn it off. You can setup secure boot for Linux after that tho.

[@acm1812]

To dual boot you need to disable fast boot and secure boot from the bios if you are dual booting along with windows.

[@mikaelrask]

@@Kasiarzynka linux can be installed with secure boot enable but it can be trouble if you in the future adds more ram or new graphic card then secure boot can spit out errors that its no recognize the new stuff so better disable it and also fast boot. secure boot as microsofts way of keeping you into windows.

[@spacefacts1681]

Pop out the SSD, plug it into a mini PCIe to USB adapter, and install Linux through your main computer onto the SSD.

[@acm1812]

I don't think a 12 year old computer will have an SSD, especially not a PCIe SSD.

[@_NoName0]

@@acm1812 Yess lol But this technic can work with HDD too

[@acm1812]

Yes, you could do that. LoL

[@spacefacts1681]

@@acm1812 I googled Dell Inspiron Minis from 2008 and apparently having an SSD was standard, but very low capacity (from 4 to 64 GB) www.wikiwand.com/en/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_Series

[@kianrasti4274]

he should do thid with hdd im pretty sure it doesn't have ssd and I think it will be good if he adds some ram(4gb ddr3 will work) and if he wants to spend some money he can replace hdd with ssd

[@iainadams9726]

It generally helps when you install it on an ACTUAL hard drive - Just a bit of advice

[@luismaschietto]

I don't know if that's the problem. It demands more research before trying that.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

@@luismaschietto what do you mean?

[@thatbilal1280]

@@luismaschietto he was installing it on the usb rather than the hard drive i think

[@luismaschietto]

@@CoasterMan13Official Just saying he laks of linux knowledge and still want to create content about it.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

@@luismaschietto yeah whatever.

[@mustafamutar5062]

3:01 saying bios right I feel comfortable now

[@JonasVstn]

Same lol

[@jimdaniels4595]

I just find it weird that you had so many challenges in installing Linux Mint or Ubuntu. I don't know if you run Linux regularly. I think you missed out on crucial documentation. You should check if your boot drive is MBR or UEFI GPT. You need to create a different boot drive for MBR.

[@edboss36]

What is Linux used for

[@randomdude980]

@@edboss36 Roughly everything. If it's a device that's not a desktop pc, chances are pretty good that there is running some kind of linux or some variation of it on it. The internet basically runs on linux (if we ignore some brave people that still use windows servers).

[@edboss36]

gilkesisking and @Random Dude, can I do programming on a laptop bc I want to buy a ps5 next year?

[@Kasiarzynka]

@@edboss36 I'm not sure why you'd even need to ask that question. Of course you can program on a laptop, a laptop is just a portable PC and apart from the size of components that are being put into it (plus the fact that most of them are going to run on lower voltage to reduce battery usage). You can program on a Laptop or a normal PC, on Windows, Linux or macOS, in any programming language you want, as long as you can install an interpreter or a compiler on it, depending on the language. Obviously, the better the CPU (or GPU, if you go for some GUI program, especially something like a game) and the RAM, the faster the code can be compiled/interpreted and executed.

[@jimdaniels4595]

@@edboss36 So, I gather you wanna save up and buy PS5 and have something for programming as well. In any stage of programming you might be, be it a professional or a student, get a laptop with great battery life, Ryzen 5/i5 at least and as much RAM as you can get. Also, it is always better to get a laptop where you can upgrade the RAM later. If it is 8 today, maybe in 6 months you save up and buy and upgrade to 16. Two points to note here, firstly, Windows is paid software. How do YOU pay for it in a laptop? The price includes that. Same laptop without Windows OS costs cheaper. In fact, Dell and Lenovo are slowly selling good specs one with Linux systems, not Windows. Consider that a 10k INR price difference. Thats about 130 USD. Secondly, Apple software can only be developed through Macs. Non Apple devices cannot make apps for iPhone. However, if you do not intend to do that right now, you are fine. Rather much better off. Because a good MacBook might eat up your PS5 budget. Once you decide to go this route of Linux. Have a spare machine. Install PopOS. Look at tutorials. Read the docs. It is very straightforward. If you face any challenge whatsoever, put the error in any search engine and you'll see results. Pick the one that applies and carry on. It will be resolved eventually. Finally, you should have a system working. And this is a 10 minute process with new hardware. Now, go and look for articles like "X Things to do after installing Y" where Y is what you installed. Only follow command line instructions. This would install some software and packages that ensure a breeze in operation. But thats not the point. The point is to be comfortable with the command line. This helps that. Happy learning. Whichever you go. Also, You can game AAA on Mac with some mid to low settings. Don't let anyone put any OS or hardware in a category on use basis. You can do anything in anything. Except for Apple Devs. They doomed lmao.

[@rubenalejandro1799]

Today I installed 'Lubuntu' to my old Compaq CQ10 with 1gb of RAM and Intel Atom, with the program boot called 'Universal USB installer', it took me about 4 hours between the download and the complet configuration, it was my first time doing something like that and the computer run very well. Greetings from México!

[@nihushu8748]

before clicking "Install Linux" you need to press "`" and then after "quiet splash" put in "acpi=off" or "noacpi" and it should boot fine

[@Jameskaguo]

@@zizzu549 `

[@anthonyramirez9003]

Ha, that's what I just posted. I had the issue with my Toshiba laptop! :)

[@ClifffSVK]

Video title: Reviving A 12 Year Old Laptop With Linux! Video: "I failed."

[@theinceptor3672]

He should have tried something like lubuntu,antiX or bodhi linux as 1gb ram is pretty low and just enough for Linux Mint to operate .

[@s_aku]

@@theinceptor3672 cough cough puppy Linux cough cough

[@EliaMarisio]

@@theinceptor3672 I indeed installed Lubuntu on a 32 bit Sony Vaio of 2005 with 512 GB of RAM. With a DVD because the machine can't boot from USB.

[@EliaMarisio]

@@s_aku yep I tried also Puppy and it worked as well.

[@s_aku]

@@EliaMarisio void is pretty nice too but it's a advanced distro like puppy but xfce uses like 250-200mb (if you turn the compositor you get like 200) and if you use pico it's more light than the xfce compositor

[@al3xandros.c]

See if you need a x86 (32bit) iso because most distros have dropped it. One light distro that is relatively modern but supported for one more year is lubuntu 18.xx

[@RobertHalvarsson]

This!

[@mandem9319]

Check the bios, go into boot options - disable CSM (compatibility layer). The laptop probably does not have UEFI or at least UEFI through CSM, just good ol' legacy BIOS. Also disable secure boot (if present) and don't let it Fast Boot. Good luck!

[@noahk1031]

personally I found that installing lubuntu is pretty easy because it's designed for use with older hardware. It's basically a super lightweight linux distro and I got it working relatively easily on a few old computers I had lying around.

[@datboi1861]

I've tried multiple distros and all they do is turn my PC off.

[@333juniorb]

i'm not a pro but: 1 -> try to use a stable and light linux like Q4os or antix something similar that supports a 32-bit architecture. 2 -> do not unplug the usb key after reboot I hope this helps.

[@ebentee]

Whoever is reading this, you will be successful one day, let's do this for the future.

[@rajeshlourembam]

Hey thanks. Means a lot 😊

[@ebentee]

@@rajeshlourembam I'm glad, you appreciate it.Bless you

[@ramulal6151]

Thanks same to you :D

[@saurabhsharma6939]

Same to you fam

[@Bazzguit]

Thanks man! Same for you!

[@aalvarez711]

Here is a list of what I would do. * use the oldest usb drive you have with enough storage * install gparted, and run it live on the laptop and just fully clean the hard drive it may be formatted all kinds of weird ways because of the many distros you tried to install. * just delete all partitions and just make one huge ext4 partition on the laptop HDD * make sure secure boot is turned off * verify if your computer is x64 or x86 * grab correct version of installer * verify if your laptop is using EUFI or legacy boot

[@MCFinest2013]

hey man long time viewer first time commenter, I just wanted to throw my hat into the ring and tell you some of my thoughts primera, para mis hermanos de espania: Mate is pronounced maté, the distro was made in Spain, sorry I dont mean to sound pretentious but just a heads up. 2) i dont think matte is a good choice for a lightweight distro especially for a laptop with 1gb ram, personally I would go with FreeBSD or NomadBSD (this comes with a desktop environment) using Spotify through SpotifyD however if you are more comfortable with Ubuntu/a GNU-Linux distro with a desktop environment in the box I would go with Lubuntu as LXDE tends to be lighter than Matte. Also you are very intelligent so when you figure out Arch maybe this would be a good machine to revisit try again with Arch. 3) linux distros come as .iso which are flashed to usb sticks, which basically means (really simplified here) that they use the entire usb stick as a hard drive to boot a very light OS that then installs the main OS on the main drive of the computer. the reason why you cannot put multiple distros' iso on a single drive is because it is the equivalent of putting multiple OS on one drive, you need to partition off the drive first to hold multiple iso. There are tools for this like MultiBootUSB (itsfoss.com/multiple-linux-one-usb/). 4) at 6:28 it shows that you are installing the OS to a 4gb drive when (according to amazon) the machine has 160GB, so I think you might have been installing the OS to the USB stick instead of the hard drive of the computer. Though I could be wrong about this as I do not own that computer. otherwise great video, love your work, keep up the amazing channel

[@perz1val]

He uses multiboot: 5:07

[@ivanguerra1260]

Debusan, Primero, no es Espania, es España: Segundo, no es MatE, es MAte, por la bebida típica de Argentina donde se desarroló el escritorio para Linux.

[@rustyy8326]

you might have issue withyour bootable usbb drive, which isa a common thing research about MBR and GPT partitions

[@PaulTheEldritchCat]

Hi Kalle, seeing this video brings back memories. I had to revive my desktop computer when I was a student (in 2008), failing to do so meant buying a new one and money was scarce. Fortunately I found a live CD in a Linux magazine that contained the desktop version of Hardy Heron, and that was my smartest move of this summer. After that I have reconverted a few old PCs for the sake of recovering old data or making a fresh start (one being an ASUS eeePC, I assume it's quite close to the notebook you use in this video, they came out in the same range in the same time frame). It's often trial and error, browsing forums and documentation. On my eeePC I finally installed the OS on a USB stick and that does the job (good idea, the hard drive died shortly after). Sometimes you struggle in the install to format / partition your drives correctly, sometimes it's just something you miss in the configuration. Normally with standard xubuntu or lubuntu install you're covered on old hardware. Did you get it working after all?

[@zakcodes3507]

The reason why you couldn't put more than one distro on your USB key is that each distro come in an ISO file. An ISO file is an image of an entire disk (ex.: USB drive, SSD, HDD) not an image of one or many partitions. Because of that, each ISO will take up your full USB drive and overwrite everything else on it including any other distro previously burned on it. If you want more than one distro on your USB it, I've found this article that explains how to use "MultiBootUSB": itsfoss.com/multiple-linux-one-usb/. Have fun!

[@adhamfouad68]

E2b can make you boot from various distros and windows versions using the same usb stick

[@puttitat2851]

Seems odd that the drive in the laptop would be a 4 gig one (iirc they were typically 16 gigs flash memory), which leads me to believe you are trying to install the OS to the USB memory (more likely to be 4 gig), which could also explain why it 1. refuses to repartition, 2. refuses to boot after an "installation".

[@alexianhentiu3608]

Try to manually partition the hard drive during the installation. Select the internal hard drive (usually it is /dev/sda ) . Delete all existing partitions and create a new one (/dev/sda1 with ext4 file system) and mount it at /. Then make sure to select your hard drive (/dev/sda) as the main device to install the grub bootloader.

[@navneethgopal1211]

I love how down to earth and humble you are. Most programmers become cocky know-it-all after a while.

[@navneethgopal1211]

@@michaelpaulinus oh boy don't remind me.

[@datboi1861]

I'm slowly entering that stage and I hate it lol

[@23lg89]

I got an ASUS Z9 100 running with Linux Mint. During the installation (setting the password) it hung up more often, but around the 5th attempt it worked. After the installation, he didn't hang up and I still had LTS for about 3 years.😅😁

[@madroksgames1907]

I relate a lot with this vídeo. I'm a CS student and when I'm learning a new thing I need hours to do it. But after a certain point you became confortable doing it. The first time I used Linux I felt so weird and uncofortable, I didn't know how to do anything. Now I only use Linux and I love it. I can't go back.

[@madroksgames1907]

I'm learning docker now and it's really fun but I'm also strugling a lot xD

[@gmc9753]

For a computer this old and with only 1G memory, I would install a text-only version, like Ubuntu minimal. If you have your music in files, you can then install the moc package which can play audio files in a terminal screen.

[@medamineamg4970]

It seemed like 12 houres of hell in 2:53 working with that 1gb ram 😂

[@RVAraghav]

Hi Kalle, It would be great if you could do a video on setting up Linux and getting started kinda video. It would be really cool for those who never used Linux.

[@donaldjosuelopezbarrios8410]

Thanks for yout honesty man. Great Video

[@devppratik]

I installed Lubuntu on a 13yr old HP laptop that had 120GB of HDD and 512MB of RAM and it worked. Lubuntu runs fine without any issue

[@apollosburcham1232]

the amount of patience and persistence Kalle has is inspiring

[@1122slickliverpool]

It’s pronounced “bye-ose”. 😂 ❤️

[@atipuginhere]

Kalle Hallden vs Linux, part 2

[@marcuslee678]

Is it a 32bit and 64bit problem? I've been unable to install a 64bit system on my last old thinkpad as well, 32bit did work but many programs that I use doesn't support 32bit anymore..

[@CFWhitman]

If you look up the specification of this netbook, you will see that it is based on an Atom N455 processor (EDIT: actually there were a few different processors, but they were all 32 bit Atom models), which is 32 bit. So only a 32 bit distribution can possibly work. That means that there is no hope for installing regular Ubuntu, since there is not 32 bit version of that anymore. Some other flavors of Ubuntu do support 32 bit still. However, for a machine like this I would normally switch to something based directly on Debian, like Debian itself or MX Linux.

[@omarabozein7015]

I can't miss a single video of yours man

[@hermanwooster8944]

If you want to know why Linux doesn't have a bigger install base, it's because of this. I had to burn through several distros and a month of hard work before I was finally able to get one distro working (Fedora). I love it, but it's only for people who are extremely dedicated. Gotta hand it to Windows, it may not run fast, but it runs.

[@tommyseptian4601]

Gosh, I spent 2 days to install Ubuntu to my 10 year old laptop as well. Got so many things that prevented me to install as well. I got it to work after I use a brand new USB stick and install the bootable iso using Balena Etcher

[@softwaredeveloper9205]

Well, something wonderful i did with my acer AOD257(atom based processor) netbook purchased on 2011 which is similar to yours dell laptop. I made that thing a windows server where i served ftp, http protocol based service in additional installed MS Sqlserver + python services. And iam really happy with it. 😍 The total cost of my server is ver very very low $20 dollar per year which include for static ip address and a less cost domain.

[@cease2xist653]

I like this guys content but I feel it's more lifestyle over actual substance. His life looks nice and as unhealthy programmers it's probably something we aspire to. However he often makes massive rookie mistakes for a techie guy. He tried to convert a Unity game to Flutter even though it's already cross platform at the click of a button. And this video well I'm 100% sure he could have easily installed a Linux distribution called Zorin OS 15 lite (made for old computers) on that old laptop. But style over substance is okay so I keep subscribing ;)

[@tristanfulford5562]

Also the kernel seemed to be installed, just the graphical environment wasn't loading, so could probably get a terminal with the f7 keybind or whatever it is, and fix it up from there

[@anthonyramirez9003]

Yeah, you never want to screw with the BIOS unless you know what you are doing. The only way to recover from a bad BIOS update is to remove the CMOS battery or find the reset jumpers on old computers and rest them.

[@flaviorobertoflorespadilla9302]

i can tell youre a rookie with linux. Recommendation: Ubuntu mate is a very good choice as is lightweight and has a lot of hardware support. Make sure your bios is updated, secure boot disabled. Erase the whole drive when partitioning and let the installer do it on its own. Remove the pendrive when done and reboot.

[@LawnCable]

Some tips: 1. Try searching your errors on google or on duckduckgo 2. balena etcher works for writing isos to usb 3. if the laptop should be still to weak for spotify and you got spotify premium you could try using spotifyd (seach that on github) or alternatively just play music where you have (legally) downloaded the music files wizh vlc, silverjuke,lolipop or even the terminal app cmus.

[@CosmicRider555]

Don't know if you're still working on this project 3 years after uploading this video. I just had a customer with this exact machine. Make sure to disable secure boot and you're in legacy mode in the BIOS (different models might call it something else). I installed Puppy Linux on the machine and it is working very well. Make sure you get a 32-bit version. 64-bit is supported on the Dell Mini but has problems.

[@mikepandel1646]

I could be wrong but a lot of these older netbook style laptops shipped with 32bit operating systems. Have you tried a 32bit version of the distro's you are trying? I agree with a lot of the comments below tho. small SSD will speed that thing up. Good luck!

[@animatedzombie64]

I too used that kind of thing 3 years ago with pentium processor, driven with Linux

[@speedyfox9080]

Today a friend of a friend of a friend brought me an ancient netbook. It couldn't even install windows 7. Installed Void Linux + Openbox

[@samosborne]

Hey Kalle, Just wanted to say I've been watching you for a while and you've inspired me to make KZbin videos around programming and building projects. Sucks that you have so many problems with installing Linux, but tech can be a pain in the ass sometimes haha! All the best man, and that place looks awsome!

[@williamsmith3169]

I have done this too successfully. I could not change my BIOS. I found only one of the USB ports on my mini laptop was bootable with a USB stick. Check them all with your Linux USB stick. Secondly you can remove the cover and take out the HDD and install Linux manually from another laptop and put in back. Linux unlike Windows will readily adjust to a new hardware configuration. Good luck.

[@deafmettle]

Are using 32bit mint or 64 bit mint. I have a dell inspiron dual core i686. With lots of research I discovered it would only work with 32 bit Linux Mint. Now that I have it working I use it to code. Its great for small python, node and html5 projects

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

I love you kalle! Keep strong

[@soisauce364]

he: 12 years old laptop me: 20 years old laptop me: .....

[@Subh8081]

Disable secure boot. Choose Lubuntu. Selectold Windows drive. Choose "Erase All Disk" option to install.

[@plsaneh]

ctrl + shift + esc > startup > disable all win + r > msconfig > services > hide microsoft services > disable all you're welcome

[@avikarefin5676]

Bro... You are doing everything in the "Let's see what happens" way. You could have chosen much lighter one. But ok. Curiosity killed the cat. But hopefully curiosity will make you wiser.

[@visualmisinformation]

good to watch. sometimes we learn more through struggle and failure that we do when all goes well and simply. I want to give it a try on a very old Toshiba. Good luck!

[@bakedbeings]

In case you get the resume/wake issue: it seems to be a kernel prob. I revived a 10 year old HP Elitebook this week using Mint Mate 2020 and it locked up on resume. Looking up the graphics (intel i915 controller) on some linux forums I found a lot of people have had issues from around 5.0 through at least 5.4. I installed both the 4.9 and 5.7 kernels from the ubuntu mainstream ppa and with either one (hold shift as grub starts up and choose mate advanced startup) it can resume with zero probs 👍

[@bakedbeings]

PS Please get the errors up in chat so we can help, then you can make the follow up and deliver on the title!

[@asiimawepablo441]

That laptop is fascinating

[@notrandomcharacters]

use rufus USB tool rufus.ie

[@MrBaxterrify]

Fascinating. It is great to make old tech run again using a great OS!

[@manuel.dignani]

and Mint isn't the fastest distro. On a real 20yo PC I can install Void Linux

[@chaslinux]

Great effort Kalle, it must have been pretty frustrating, luckily you were at the cottage and could relax. One thing I noticed during partitioning was that it looked like the hard drive wasn't being recognized. Each time you went to partition the partition manager showed 4GB, which would be the USB key. I remember running into something like this (I think it was also with Linux Mint). I don't remember if I used Xubuntu instead or whether I went with a 32bit version (some of the netbooks of that era were 32bit). If you use a 32bit version of Xubuntu you'd need to use something a bit older as newer versions of Xubuntu only support 64bit: torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/bionic/release/desktop/xubuntu-18.04.5-desktop-i386.iso.torrent. BTW there is spotify for Linux, so if you get things going again you might want to give it another go! Good Luck!

[@yanuehara]

I miss the Summer cottage season!! Nice summer project/challenge!

[@TusharSelvakumar]

Hey, I hope you read this comment. WARNING: THIS METHOD WILL DELETE ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE I installed ubuntu on my laptop and I was getting the same error. this is how I fixed it: 1. Get a Ubuntu Flash Drive(use etcher or Rufus) 2. Boot into the USB drive from the laptop. 3. Choose the 'Try Ubuntu" option. 4. Open GParted and format the entire drive(Internal Hard Drive) 5. Choose the New option to create a new partition. 6. Try installing Ubuntu again. If you run into an error, format and create a new partition again through the installer. Hopefully, this works for you.

[@tusharkuntawar6170]

Looks you are new to Linux (even after trying to install arch if memory serves right ) you need something simple for this project though so Slax is the way to go First, go to slax.org and download the correct iso (32 or 64) This is copy-pasted 1)Copy the entire /Slax/ directory to your USB drive. If you are using Windows, you will get for example E:\slax\ just make sure you are on your USB drive now and not on your local hard disk. 2) Now navigate to directory /slax/boot/ on your USB drive. In Windows, it will be E:\slax\boot\ for example. Use Explorer or any other file manager for this task. 3) While you're in the boot directory, locate file bootinst.bat (or .sh for Linux) Run it by double-clicking it. *It will set up your USB to boot.* (copy-paste ends ) now to install it on your laptop (steps 1 to 3 installed it on your USB) 4)install GParted to your Slax installed in USB (this is not needed just for simplicity's sake) apt-get install gparted (in terminal) 5)Wipeout your laptop with GParted and make a new ext4 portion. 6)copy the contents of USB (sr0 or something like that in file explorer) to your laptop's partition and run that bootinst.sh you should be golden (after reboting make sure google how to make slax persistent )

[@tusharkuntawar6170]

One more thing looks you have a bios update pending. Install A04 THEN A11.( before you remove windows though )

[@matheuscosta5330]

Its good to view all the fail process, thats the real life haaha! Keep trying Kalle, the linux journey its not easy but worth it

[@MartinusHUN]

I have an old netbook with 1014mb of RAM, and on the 2nd try, I successfully installed Zorin OS Lite (32-bit).

[@shauryagoyal911]

My dad had the same laptop and it works like flash

[@jpetrik155]

btw you can press down your key to get into bios, you don't have to spam it :)

[@webslinger2011]

Maybe if you took out the drive and installed linux from another pc then put it back in. If you want to keep windows to dual boot, I suggest defragmenting the drive first, shrink and create an empty partition on the drive to install linux.

[@BoP189]

The problem coul'd be the processor architecture or bios chip architecture, check it. If 32bits you'll need the correct ISO. Had same issue installing linux on old devices. New Linux distros can lack 32 bits support, not all of than.

[@kumarranabirsur5935]

Hi Kalle, Probably you have succeeded already in installing Linux on your Dell Inspiron mini. I have the same laptop with a 240 GB HDD. I installed and used Linux Mint 19.3 xfce and Debian 10 xfce, both 32 bit. These use around 230 mb of RAM. 64 bit OS is not required with 1 GB of RAM. Probably there is some mistake which is not clear from the video. 1. Make the bootable USB with Rufus or Etcher. 2. Try live. 3. Install in legacy BIOS mode, not UEFI. 4. At least 8 - 10 GB of disk space is required. Thank you for your video

[@AI_Elbaz]

i'm just surprised that windows 10 was installed in this laptop

[@hopefulfailure7175]

I had similar errors Try getting lubuntu or linux mint although my initial success was with lubuntu. I think (at least in my case) it turned out to be a problem with the processor. It was just ridiculously old and had to have support for a certain processing method. Sorry I wish I remembered more it was very long ago ^^;

[@kevinmccallister7647]

You are installing Linux mint to USB not hard drive I think the install says its 4gb a hard drive would be bigger then that?

[@fredrik2008]

Well atleast you learned something, yeah modern distros arent really made for that old computers. However you try to boot with acpi=off option It might help.

[@duffyduck4065]

Sometimes by uefi booted os format drives in gpt and gpt can't work on older machine . Try to select MBR boot option during drive format

[@Pythagoras1plus]

Having twenty years of Linux experience I still see those issues alot. Try Debian, it works in most cases. Nevertheless it took too much time and patience in the past so I stopped servicing regular computers and work with Raspberry Pi 4 devices only.

[@jalakamkiran7392]

😂😂😂😂...was great fun watching this video...but nice try buddy...the funny part was you saying the line.." I thought this would be a literally easy video" 😂😂😂

[@VamsiKrishna-pp4fy]

I installed Lubuntu on a old laptop, and it worked out well

[@lua4u590]

Try with Lubuntu as way to get even more lighter than using Ubuntu Mate, in the worst cases you can try with one of the older builds of Lubuntu to run it everywhere, I was able to install it on a PC with 384MB of RAM to use it as a "media center" not to much of it due to the lack of ram but it can be used to play music and watch some photos, hope this helps, really nice mood in your video, good luck!

[@TheGitGuild]

Damn this video reminds me the dark era of “Netbooks”. Also a useful tip, if you have a 3D printer, you can install “Octoprint” on those things it and control your printer remotely.

[@bestproducts-review7]

Kalle Hallden please can I have your whatsapp contact so we could talk about a programming company project . Thank you

[@bestproducts-review7]

You would be paid there for your videos and codes

[@avikarefin5676]

"We are going to update ByeOS" - Kalle Hallden

[@naveenbharadwaj5059]

What happened to your one day build?

[@faheemahmadofficial7701]

i am using a 13 year old laptop...it still works! with windows 10 lite

[@BYAZIT]

Look at the processor specifications. Try a distro which match with the processor. Like ARM processor need ARM distro. Like on Raspberrypi, full ubuntu distro will not work. But any arm based OS will work.

[@abhijitbagchi3471]

You could have used one LXDE environment based version of any linux.

[@Iliasmhani]

Choose Lubuntu it is better for older computers, install the 32bits version and then burn the iso to ur pendrive with rufus. Then install it normally it should work

[@radomane]

Go for a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE, since you only have a gig of RAM.

[@Nopefish]

Manjaro or Arch Linux is much more lightweight distro than Ubuntu for such old hardware

[@predator9909]

try unetbootin and select partition c with out usb , in boot menu you can see unetbootin logo and clean install linux mint

[@adnaneelamraoui3169]

I think it will be a pcie bus error and you can solve it using this command "pcie_aspm=off " in the grub menu and updating your grub using sudo update-grub in the terminal

[@harissabotic5714]

You should've gone with Lubuntu. It's really light, and I'm pretty sure the lightest Ubuntu based distro

[@slenplayz1400]

kde is somehow lighter

[@damanpreetsingh8549]

Wheres the error you recieved while installing linux man ?

[@gururajwankhade6162]

Try this once: create an empty disk partition for installing the linux environment(like seprate the partition and delete the partition) create an ISO drive with " MBR partition scheme"(since these old pc's have MBR partition schemes over GPT partition schemes) [I would recommend using RUFUS to create the ISO its worked really well for me] make sure this time to only have the desired ISO image burned on the usb drive and nothing else on it. installing linux environments is really tricky especially on older devices as so much variables come into play. There is no single assured way; just a lot of trails and errors lol still hurts my head thinking about the time I've wasted**

[@siayamkhan9728]

Try Peppermint OS.It will work fine on this laptop.I already try Peppermint OS on that type of laptop it worked fine and smooth.

[@todddelozier8172]

I gutted a bunch of old computers right before I discovered Linux. Never again my friends.

[@zulfadlizainal_]

this channel slowly switching to linux channel haha

[@Maudrandir]

it switched to quick click bait cash grub channel long ago

[@MrCaps-sq4bk]

Yo, is that a netbook?!

[@MrRefael33]

Try Puppy Linux 🐶 it's really lightweight disto.

[@manojuppala3941]

I still use a hp laptop with Intel Pentium and windows Vista.

[@dhruvvanjari3084]

I have arch linux with i3-wm on the same laptop, works great! Uses around 120MB ram when idle.

[@robmooreproductions7160]

I would suggest using Rufus to burn the ISO onto the flash drive. Distros for that kind of hardware: Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Puppy Linux, or perhaps an older LTS perhaps something with Unity rather than GNOME