Unlock a compac 7550

[John Heinen]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 18:26 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>   
>> On 12/08/2009 05:35 PM, John Heinen wrote:
>> ...
>>     
>>> Hi Andrew, I did peruse the above alas, most of it is way over my head,
>>> To isolate the problem some, the CRC error appears only when I try to
>>> load a LINUX program such as ubuntu, kubuntu, it runs fine on windows xp
>>> The computer, A Compac 7550 Wind Ep 2002, AMD sempron processor 1.79 ghz
>>> 224 mb of ram. 224 mb not enough? John
>>>
>>>       
>> No.
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, NoOp is correct... 224mb isn't enough to run ubuntu...
> though I don't think this would cause the CRC error your seeing...though
> I've been wrong before.
>
> As an alternative, you could try downloading a lighter-weight version of
> ubuntu, or another distro altogether. A good one for older PCs w/
> limited resources is Damn Small Linux: 
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
>
> Though, if your hellbent on using ubuntu, you could consider Xubuntu as
> an alternative... or use an ubuntu variant with LXDE as a desktop, as
> they both should work fairly well on older hardware. Check these links
> out for more info:
>
> http://www.xubuntu.org/
> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Ubuntu
>
> I'm sorry if this info is over your head...I realize it may be a bit
> overwhelming for a new user to absorb... Feel free to let me know if you
> have any questions, or need something clarified, and I'll help where I
> can.
>
> Best of luck!
>
>   
Hi Andrew, Appreciate your input, I got this computer from a charity
outfit than I fix them up 'if I can' and return them to charity, its fun
to do this, in this case I left Linux out of it because they probably
will be happy with windows.
Anyway I learned a lot, Thanks John