On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, hard wyrd<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'm not so sure that would have been simple on that hardware. With 64 >> MB even Knoppix will not boot into a GUI environment without requiring >> a swapfile/swappartition, which cannot be done if the drive is messed >> up, and thus will drop you into a root shell -- not exactly a friendly >> environment for someone new to Linux. > > I didn't mention using a liveCD that has a GUI. And he did mention it was > running XP, so presumably it can run a fairly decent distro. And the issue > was how to resolve clearing the existing filesystem.
Which any install CD will do. > Yes it can be done, and has been done several times over. But how far? It's > up to the user. And will it run on that rig? I believe so. It ran XP before, > so it definitely can run Linux. The question of which distro to use I leave > to the preference of the user. I bet it will be able to run Ubuntu 5.10. I > consider that release as an easy one to use. Again, how hard could it be? > And I'm sure as hell, that machine can run Knoppix. I'm not so sure. We never established that the hardware works. We just assumed. > Getting out of one's comfort zone definitely isn't a walk in the park. More > so in learning another OS. But someone has to start somewhere. And one has a better chance of success on newer hardware, and an even better chance on hardware that comes pre-installed with Linux. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
