> Allen Brown wrote: > >> Time to celebrate and brag... >> >> On Sunday-Monday I visited friends in Salem who are moving to Michigan. >> They have an old computer (133MHz) running W2K. She was afraid >> windows had gotten infected by a "security" download she had >> clicked on. And asked about Linux. >> >> I installed it. But it was having trouble. It took many hours to >> read the partition table. Long enough that I was unable to stay for >> the full install. I decided to stay the course. >> >> So she did the last step while talking with me over the phone. >> And the install spanned three days, much of which involved waiting >> for this slow computer to contemplate its navel. >> >> Please understand that both of them are completely unsophisticated >> computer users. But it came right up after the install. She just >> edited her first file (from the NTFS partition). She's tickled that >> it is working. >> >> They both wonder why this wonderful system, costing nothing, is >> almost unknown while the infection ridden windows system dominates >> the market. >> >> Of course, the future is always hard to predict. Problems could >> come up. But at this point we have new converts. And they know >> a lot of people. Bwah-ha-ha! Ubuntu rocks! > > Allen Brown > Long and painful though that may be, I presume that the 133MHz machine > also didn't have a lot of memory, so I am not too surprised at the time > to install - glad to hear it all went well in the end > Regards > Fred James
No doubt, altho I never checked. I did suggest it might be a good time to upgrade. She has this computer specifically because it has a zip drive. So if she gets a replacement, it would be desirable for it to support that. That would be IDE. With all the new interfaces coming out I don't know if IDE is disappearing. Is it? Hmm, I suppose I should check if Ubuntu talks to the zip drive before she leaves. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ---George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
