[Microcord]

Hello, my first posting here. Unfortunately with a Bodhi installation question.

I have a Dell Mini 12 (aka Inspiron 1210). It's a slightly odd beast: a generous screen size for a netbook (with a resolution of 1280×800) but only 1GB of RAM, which can't be replaced or added to. (More specs are here.) It came with Ubuntu 8.04 (tweaked by Dell). That of course is ancient, so I've tried replacing it with CrunchBang (disaster, though CB is fine on the computer I'm typing on right now), Mint LMDE Xfce (won't recognize the screen resolution), and now, following a tip I picked up here (linuxquestions.org), here I am trying Bodhi.

I used Unetbootin to make a bootable USB memory thing, and booted off that, choosing "Bodhi Linux Live/Install". I don't see the leaf-on-plate-on-right screen shown in the page of installation instructions (not that I mind; I'm just saying this for diagnostic purposes); instead, I see blue and white bars along the bottom of the screen. But I'm soon into the first configuration question, "Select one". I select "Laptop/Netbook" and hit "Next". OK so far. But the next question is (greyed out) "Choose A Theme", at the top of a window that's all white. No choice is visible/legible. I tried clicking at various places anyway -- what have I to lose? -- and clicking on "Next", but nothing happens. ("Next" remains greyed out.)

But the system hasn't hung. If I quickly press the power button, I'm quickly taken to an elegant screensaver/timewaster: leaves drifting rightward across my screen, as (horizontal) "Bodhi Linux" slowly moves between grey and black. So it doesn't seem likely that there's a problem with video.

Tips?

(I'd really like to see Bodhi Linux working, install it on the hard drive, and then spend a month or three without experimenting with yet another distro.)

[Charles@Bodhi]

1. Have you checked the md5sum of your ISO? Any mismatch would cause problems.
2. Have you preformatted your flashdrive to FAT32? Use Gparted, Unetbootin sometimes does not do a very good job formatting.
3. Remake the flashdrive with Unetbootin and try again.

Enjoy,
Charles.

[Microcord]

Charles@Bodhi, on 03 April 2012 - 10:10 AM, said:

1. Have you checked the md5sum of your ISO? Any mismatch would cause problems.
2. Have you preformatted your flashdrive to FAT32? Use Gparted, Unetbootin sometimes does not do a very good job formatting.
3. Remake the flashdrive with Unetbootin and try again.

Well, that's so elementary that . . . it never occurred to me. Done!

I'm now at the "Preparing to Install Bodhi" stage. This computer "X is connected to the internet" right now, so I shall try to nudge the missus away from her computer and ethernet connector, and, when I've succeeded in that, etherize my little computer and proceed.

All very smooth so far. (Well, the pulsation of the four icons at the foot [Midori, file manager, install, terminal, I suppose] looks to me like a parody of Mac OS X, but I'm sure I'll be able to disable it.)

Thank you for your help!