@ mwelbourne:-
RSH has got the right idea for your situation.
If the Packard Bell is running an Athlon XP-M, you've either got the 'Thoroughbred' or 'Barton' cores. Both of these only had SSE instructions; current Palemoon, as downloaded from the Palemoon site, is compiled to need an SSE2-capable CPU. SSE2 is pretty much the required minimum for the majority of modern web browsers.
As things stand, in my estimation, Xenialpup is asking a bit much for that old girl. Our general recommendation is usually to try the newest Puppies first, then if that proves too much for your hardware, to work backwards until you find one that will work OK with it.
Personally, I feel that the next older one, Tahrpup, may also prove a bit much. It's a brilliant Puppy, no doubt about it, but my old Dell lappie - an Inspiron 1100, from 2002, with an SSE2-equipped Pentium 4, did 'struggle' a bit with it. My recommendation would be to try 'old faithful',
Precise 5.7.1. This is fast becoming accepted by the community as being the recognised 'standard' for hardware of that vintage. It's what I run now in the Dell lappie.....and it works great.
Lucid may also be worth a try. I'd recommend you try the 'Sulu-002' variant.
You can find the Precise 571 ISO here:-
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.7.1/
.....and the main thread for Lucid can be found here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461
Follow the links for downloads from Richard's MediaFire a/c.
If you have a need for older drivers, such as for modems & the like, try Precise-5.7.1-retro; it's built with an older kernel. Otherwise, standard 571 should work fine.
Precise & Lucid should both install in exactly the same way as Xenialpup did.....sounds like you're now getting the hang of things..!
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As for a version of Palemoon that will work with your CPU, you're in luck; we've got you covered there, as well. Forum member
watchdog has put together a number of Palemoon packages, compiled for SSE-only CPUs, and incorporating a built-in glibc 'upgrade', too. You can find that here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 676#973676
Scroll down to the bottom of the post to find the newest version, 27.9.4. If that should prove too much, perhaps try one of the earlier versions? (Forum member
keniv has reported success with 27.9.4; he runs a Pentium III - also with SSEs only - it was the Athlon's main contemporary at the time of release.)
If you decide to try this route (which I feel would work better for you), let us know how you get on, please?
Mike.