Mepis Installation Issue

[M_Mungo]

If someone has answers... I downloaded Mepis 8.0 32 bit using Bittorrent. I used PowerISO to burn the image at the slowest speed. I get an error message during the boot from the CD:

"8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC"

"can't find Mepis file system..."

I found some forums that explain that "noapic" input somewhere could resolve the issue. If this is the case:

1) Will this command lessen the performance of my PC?

2) Where do I input this "noapic". Even though I installed and customized Ubuntu on 2 PCs, I still consider myself a novice and need to be walked through what might be considered simple stuff.

Ubuntu is working great. Much better than XP. I am really interested in using a distro with KDE to see the difference with KDE and Gnome.

I appreciate any help. Thanks


DUAL BOOTING
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MUNGO-8BF280D64
System Manufacturer Dell Inc
System Model Dimension E521
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 79 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc 1.1.11, 8/2/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name MUNGO-8BF280D64\Michael
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,560.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.95 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 5.94 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

[rokytnji]

Where do I input this "noapic".

When you boot up the cd and the grub menu choices screen pops up. That is when you type it in. It will show up on the bottom of the screen.

Just curious if you checked the md5sum of torrent file.

Cheatcodes - MEPIS Documentation Wiki

[M_Mungo]

I added "noapic". I did not receive the error message but, I still received a message that says "Can't find Mepis file system, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Press reset button to quit. /static/ash; can't access tty; job control turned off mepis#"

Maybe I should have checked the md5sum (if I knew how) because, I now have 5 new coasters. Any ideas?

[rokytnji]

I am guessing that you are using Windows since you said you were using Bit Torrent. Below Link covers Linux and Windows.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

[gnuuser]

[verify the md5 sum but as far as a iso burner download infra recorder it is free and reliable. I have a collection of over 150 linux distros burned to cd all using infra recorder

[M_Mungo]

I used the boot disk on another PC: No problems. For some reason, the first PC I tried wouldn't let me install.

My new issue is, having compiz automatically start on Mepis. I created a link in .kde/autostart to the compiz executable file but, I get prompted at startup to select a program to open.