Next Question: Is it my lousy gerbil-powered computer?
Robert A. Weppner
purefog at comcast.net
Sat May 14 22:02:39 UTC 2005
Thanks to all who responded earlier. In the meantime, I figured out
that BIOS comes before whatever operating system (wow! I'm now
operating at a ten-year-old's level of competence!), and so changed to
boot from the CD. (I've done it before on my massive desktop, so I knew
what it should look like. . .) So anyway, shortly into the process, I
get a message that I have "relatively little memory" (to say the least,
see gerbil reference above), and it proceeded to install. I got to the
stage -- the last stage? -- called, "Preparing for live session," and
got 63% of the way through that ("Creating user. . ."), and now the
thing has hung permanently.
So, I guess my question is: If I uninstall Win98 to free up some
memory, and then *install* Ubuntu from the Install disk I burned, what
do we think the chances are that it will load up and function properly?
If it matters, the aforesaid Gerbil XX1000 has 2.1 G hard drive, a
blinding 48 MB of RAM, and a dazzling 166mHz chip.
Thanks again!
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