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

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