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Trying to install Ubuntu desktop

Asked by shellyalison

Really really old desktop... still has EDO for crying out loud! 4 gig, 32megs, 233mhz, trying to do for a friend, mostly amusing myself tonight with it, but it's ticking me off now, and so I must make this work... it's one of those OCD things you've all heard about, but of course none of you suffer from...hee hee!

Any help would be great, it had 95b on the drive, they thought they would rocket into the next gen, by putting an XP disc in the drive and running it, we all know the results of that... and now I can't get the microshit out to load linux, and it won't let me even install any thing windows. I have the live cd, I get to the install page, it loads the kernel, then hangs, with a message of "[ 0.000000] acpi: unable to locate rsdp" and I cannot get any further.

I have used this same cd previously on my laptop, but had to switch back to our wonderful programmer from Seattle, because I could not get my wireless connection to work, and I got tired of being chained to the router with 100' of cat6 line!

kisses shelly

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Best Andre Mangan (kyphi) said : 		#1

Here is your answer: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

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shellyalison (shellyalison) said : 		#2

thanks...appears I'm a turd...not even the bare bones min to make it run

kisses shelly

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shellyalison (shellyalison) said : 		#3

Thanks Andre Mangan, that solved my question.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Wow - is that really 32Mb of Ram!!! I think i still have a stick of that around somewhere. Getting a stick of 128Mb proper old sd-ram would be a huge boost to this machine. It's a bit of a collectors item but there ae still people selling it quite reasonably.

Probably the best distro for this machine is sliTaz although it'd be worth trying a puppy. If you can get a bit more ram then i'd recommend Wolvix but i think bot it and puppy are likely to be tooo heavy! SliTaz would be great to install and it'd be quite roomy for it ;)
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Puppy-Linux-1996.shtml

Good luck and have fun
Regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090309&mode=67

Oh, there's been some chat about tiny distro's in the Readers Comments at DistroWatch this week (and i suspect in most other weeks too)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

For your own machine how about setting up a dual-boot system so that you can explore linux and try to find how to solve the issue about wireless drivers while still being able to actually use the Windows side for real work ;)

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

Also look forward to 9.04 being released because apparently it has much much better wireless support built into the kernel. It might be worth testing the alpha6 released yesterday. Sorry, the only download link i could find in a quick hunt was on the 2nd article in DistroWatch lol
http://distrowatch.com/

For sorting out the wireless this guide might help maybe

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/internet/C/wireless.html

If you are going to set up a dual-boot then why not a multi-boot with a very tiny distro? Wolvix seems to be excellent at picking up Wireless networks and even has a quick help guide (sorry i didn't look very hard for one in Ubuntu. I'm sure there is one tho)

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

http://forums.wolvix.org/index.php/topic,144.0.html

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)