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[Bill Stanley]

On 11/23/2011 11:40 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> I have an old Dell computer in my workshop that I want to run Ubuntu
> 10.04 with EMC on. I plan to use it to operate a small cnc milling
> machine. I had another machine that I used some, but it went the way of
> most old things. Poof! This Dell machine's speed is 1ghtz of and had 512
> megs of ram. This should be adequate I think. I have 10.04 installed and
> Grub works I also have Ubuntu 11.04 installed on the second drive. If I
> make my program choice in Grub neither program will run. The BIOS are
> set to run in the original Dell mode. Do I need to make a change in the
> Bios to allow Ubuntu to run? While I am at it i am learning some things
> with some of the off topic posts, so they are not all bad:-) . Thanks, Doug

Although this reply emails says nothing about installing Unbuntu, I 
would like to recommend that you expand the RAM to the maximum that the 
computer can take.  Right now, memory is cheap and offers a lot of bang 
for the buck.

Bill Stanley