Booting Linux on (very) old computer.

[zFollette]

So, I dug up an old HP Brio which came with Windows 98 installed. I am trying to install Damn Small Linux onto it, but can't seem to successfully do it. I can get the boot disks to run on my laptop which has the same BIOS (Pheonix, obviously not the same version). I am getting no errors when booting from the disk, it just simply skips it all together (I have it set as 1st device to boot). Is there anything particular that is causing this?

 

[ivtec]

So, I dug up an old HP Brio which came with Windows 98 installed. I am trying to install Damn Small Linux onto it, but can't seem to successfully do it. I can get the boot disks to run on my laptop which has the same BIOS (Pheonix, obviously not the same version). I am getting no errors when booting from the disk, it just simply skips it all together (I have it set as 1st device to boot). Is there anything particular that is causing this?

Hi Follette; you don't tell what hp modle# you have what Linux Distro you're trying,your old machine may not be PAE,you need to try a non PAE distro.
Xubuntu 12.04 is a good start.