On 1/10/2024 09:46:33, Liam Proven wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 20:12, joe a
wrote: ASUS A7V733-c.
This motherboard?
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt133a/a7v133/a7v133-105.pdf
That's very old. No 64-bit distro will run on that. You *must* use a 32-bit distro. I guess you know that, though.
Seems no ISO images of recent vintage want to boot. Tried USB bootables, but the BIOS only knows USB FDD and USB ZIP, so, no boot either, just blinking cursor upper left corner.
The PLOP boot manager will let many CD/FDD only machines boot from USB successfully and I used it for years.
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html
You can put it on a floppy, boot from that, and it will then boot from USB or whatever.
Once it works, I recommend Ventoy as the easy way to try lots of ISOs.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Tumbleweed does still support x86-32 but it's not a lightweight distro at all.
I'd suggest antiX, the Raspberry Pi Desktop (the x86 version of the Pi OS) or maybe Alpine. Void Linux can also be quite lightweight.
Thanks for those links. They may prove handy.