On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, hard wyrd<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, hard wyrd<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Which any install CD will do. > > I dont think so. Ubuntu Server build doesn't have a GUI to boot into last > time I looked.
Touche'. And a nice red herring. >> I'm not so sure. We never established that the hardware works. We >> just assumed. > > He said the laptop worked with XP before he messed up trying to install > Linux. Or I might have read it incorrectly. XP doesn't work on a 64MB RAM > machine since it requires minimum of 128 MB of RAM which is more than enough > for a base Linux system, or for a base live cd which has the GNU tools, > gparted, and other little helpers which are more than enough in order to > remove the erring file system. Good deduction, but a guess nonetheless. I'd be more comfortable if the OP had posted what his hardware setup was. >> And one has a better chance of success on newer hardware, and an even >> better chance on hardware that comes pre-installed with Linux. > > And newer hardware is not the issue at hand. Are you suggesting that he use > a different hardware instead which is not the real objective? What is the real objective? 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
