Yeah, I thought about that. I don't have one lying around in the immediate vicinity, but maybe this is the trick anyway.
I'm downloading Qimo right now. Just for the h of it. We'll see ... *wink* I have no idea how much RAM are in these machines. I assume 256, but I was too lazy to check. Could lack of memory cause the puking? On both machines, it fails at the "installing software" stage. Then, one machine won't allow either grub or lilo to load. Thanks, Kari On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > Any chance you can put a DVD drive in from another computer to load what > you want? I had to do that with my home server, which is fine, cause I never > use the drive after I install. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:55, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ugh. >> >> My kids were "gifted" two older Dells. They both had XP on them -- I >> would imagine they are maybe 7-8 years old. Both have CD-ROMs in them. >> >> >> I downloaded edubuntu -- not realizing that the computers didn't have DVD >> drives. Oops. So then I thought, well, how about Xubuntu? This fails on >> the install -- albeit in different places -- on both machines. >> >> These kids are 6 & 8. I'd really like to put some kind of something on >> these machines w/ a graphical interface. What would you suggest I do? >> >> Thanks, >> Kari >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > -- > 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 >
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