Thanks for all the great responses, I really appreciate them. The laptop
is my travel companion. I usually only go out of town once or twice a
year and so it doesn't see much use, but when its all I've got, I need
it for ssh sessions, email, typical admin type work. I do not forsee
doing any development on it beyond perl or shell scripts. Previously it
only got booted up when I needed Paint Shop Pro or when I was staying in
SFO for the weekend and needed a computer in the evenings at the hotel.
Josh: it takes CL2 SODIMMS. Its got a 256 and a 128 in it right now.
This evening I got Ubuntu 6.06 burned to a CD and tried installing it.
It failed the md5 checksum test that the cd runs on itself when booted
in the laptop. I ran a manual md5sum check on my workstation and it was
fine. I suspect that the older cd-rom drive in the laptop does not like
the media I'm using, or its simply incapable of reading modern (burned)
cd's.
So, for now I will either try to fix the Winders Xtra Pointless
installation, or figure out another solution on getting a Linux distro
installed.
Y'all have a good night.
Ryan Flowers
www.rykoala.org
Ryan Flowers wrote:
I have an older Dell Inspirion that just puked its Windows XP
installation. Surprise, surprise. I booted it a few months ago and it
was fine. Tried to boot it last week to make sure it was ready to take
on a trip to the bay area and it was dead. XP just reboots itself.
Its a P3 1ghz with 384MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive. I run FC5 at home
and work, but I doubt it'd survive well on this older hardware. Any
suggestions for a distro it would be happy with?
Thanks!
Ryan Flowers
www.rykoala.org
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