But then, computers that old may not (and probably won't) be able to boot from USB. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Cavan D. Mejias wrote: > *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 <[1][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 > <[2][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 <[3][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 [4][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [5][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [6]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 [7][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [8][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [9]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 [10][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [11][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [12]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a > messy bloodbath. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. mailto:[email protected] > 6. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 7. mailto:[email protected] > 8. mailto:[email protected] > 9. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 10. mailto:[email protected] > 11. mailto:[email protected] > 12. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
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