I just installed Edubuntu on an old P-II system with 256 RAM, an AGP video card with 64 mb of ram and one single HDD and one optical (DVD) drive. Nothing else. No PCI, or ISA cards --no network card, no modem and no Floppy drive. I removed almost everything, stripped computer of all the hardware parts, which kids don't need.
Because i just want them to use Edubuntu for learning (math, science, alphabet, geography, etc) and play a few educational games. Nothing else.YetEdubuntu will not boot --- even though there aren't any other OperatingSystems on this computer. I just did an automated installation, thus Edubuntu took over all the hard drive space (40 GB). Following the complete installation; It booted with no problems. However, it failed to boot afterward. It gives me something like the following error code: Grub loading. Please wait........ Error 17. But then nothing -- NOTHING --- happens. It just stays there forever. Therefore i have no choice but to shut down the computer and resign. As you can tell, i'm a Linux newbie (except that i know how to cfdisk&fdisk and that's all i want, as i don't want to learn more mind-numbing commands). Thus, please tell me, in most simple ways, how to fix the above-stated problem. Even better, please tell me (if there are ) any user-friendly programs or utilities, which i can use to overcome this Grub booting obstacle. Somebody said Lilo is a more reliable bootloader and he said i should install that, instead of Grub. Is that true? If so, but how can i do that??? I mean, speaking step -by-step: 1-Do i have to remove Grub before i can install Lilo? 2- If so, how can i remove Grub? 3--Where can i find Lilo to download? 4- And finally; how can i install Lilo manually on my computer? 5- Also, is it possible to save a copy of the bootloader (Grub or Lilo) on a CD, so that i can boot my computer from such a special boot CD in case Grub or Lilo sitting on HD ever fails to boot? 6- If i can make such a CD; kindly tell me how -- using the simplest terms. On the other hand, i, most probably, will remove Edubuntu and install it again from scratch. If i decide to do so, i would, this time, like to install only the features i need and discard the rest, as (like i detailed earlier) my computer is a very old PC and has only the basic, absolutely essential hardware parts for the computer to function. I would greatly appreciate ANY responses, and solutions you may offer
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