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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