murrays 0 #1 June 23, 2006 I've tried a couple of times now to install uBuntu Linux v6.06 on my old HP laptop...no luck. I downloaded the disk image and burned it to CD (using my Mac). It's a LiveCD so I put it in the CD drive and restarted from WIN98. The LiveCD starts doing its thing but it takes well over an hour before I get to the point that the menus and desktop, etc shows up. (During this time I sometimes have a text msg on the display and the CD drive is spinning away and the hard drive as well....but not much ever seems to be happening.) Then, I doubleclicked on the "Install" icon...more spinning of drives for a long time....eventually a window came up with "Install" in the the title bar.....and eventually everything stopped. It was just sitting there doing nothing for a long time...I eventually unplugged it and pulled the battery out. WIN98 started again ok...so nothing appears to have been installed. This HP 2100 laptop is a Pentium 233...a pentium, not a II or III or 4...with a 6bg HD and 160mb of Ram...tha max ram that can be installed. Should I be partitioning the drive before I put in the CD so that there is free space available? Or what?????-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
