[CoLoCo] Install Ubuntu on old laptop?

[Dave Price]

Should be fine - some older lptops cannot boot from CD-ROM though, so
a boot floppy will be needed.

Xubuntu may work a bit better than the Gnome or KDE flavors .

Since this is a laptop, I am guessing that you really have a single
5gb hard disk - that was partitioned when windows was intalled

Rule of thumb: If it runs win95 or newer 'okay' ... Any flavor of
linux will run even better!

On Nov 17, 2007 9:40 PM, CHUCK SIMCOX <cpsimcox33 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi:
>
> I have an old laptop, see below, that I would like to install ubuntu onto.
>
> The system information shows what follows.  I don't know if other
> information is necessary or what it would be so let me know if more
> information is needed.
>
> What would be recommended for starters to get the feel of ubuntu?
>
> Chuck in Grand Junction, CO
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> CompaqPresario1200
>
> System Type     X86 based PC
>
> Processor         x86 family 6 model 8 Stepping 3 Gunuine intel ~597.....
>
> BIOS Version     Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
>
> Total Physical Memory         126,448KB
>
> Available Physical Memory     52,980KB
>
> Total Virtual memory             422,308KB
>
> Available Virtual memory         288,496KB
>
> Page file space                     295,860KB
>
> Local disk (C:)                        4.21GB
>
> Local disk (D:)                     1.36 GB
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-- 
aloha,
dave