Hey,
Some distros come in a format that can be dd'ed to a usb flash drive. And
installed from there.
Good luck, hope the kids prefer *nix from now on.
Cheers.
2010/1/16 Kari Matthews <[email protected]>
> 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
>>>
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