help installing ubuntu on old computers

[Philippe Landau]

>>i am sorry about the obstacles you encounter.
>>i hope you can view it as a game like mikado or so.
>>can you please keep the subject of your emails
>>so we can work on it in a consistent thread ?
>>this is facilitated if you always use "reply" when
>>writing a new email to the list about this.
>     I'm copying and pasting from the digest to the reply, 
 > better then cutting 6 to 10 or more other messages.
when you see my email, and you hit the reply button,
what is in the subject line ?

>> I can't boot from the CD (The computer tries it,
>> and I do have the CD as the first device it checks to boot from)
>> but it can't boot.  I don't know why.
>>which version of ubuntu did you download (file name please) ?
>     4.10 "warty warthog"
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>>do you try installing on a mac ? what model ?
> no, I'd have to repartition my HDD on my mac    When I tried to put on yellow dog, it caused several disk errors (at least from MacOS point of view, I finally had to do zero out the harddrive and reinstall MacOS).
> I'm using an older computer: 166 Cyrix 6x86.
> I want to say 64 MB ram (if I'm doing the math correct on the screen before red hat's LILO starts up).
> 8x CD-ROM (no writing or rewriting capibility).
so that's a pentium 1 processor (pitty it's not a 686 :-)
unfortunately this computer may be too old for ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=8338
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9670.html
there are linux distributions specialising in old computers:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=deli
http://www.nonagsplus.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=333&PN=1

> I appreciate everyone's help.
i enjoy talking to you too.

in northern europe you have to pay to get rid of pentium 3 computers ...

kind regards     philippe

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>> I have an 8GB hard drive with old version of redhat
>> I have a brand new 160GB with 4 partitions.  I'd like to eventually format what's now "hdb1" as a swap partition and instal ubuntu on "hdb2" "hd3" and "hdb4" (the 4 partition set up: swap, root, user...).  Currently these are formatted as ext2, because the version of redhat I have couldn't format them as riser or ext3.
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>> Do I need to "fake" a few files (as in use touch to create a few zero byte files with specific names) so install can overwrite.  Or can I use install to write to the slave disk at all?
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>> Thanks,
>>     Chris
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>>     I've got 1 internet capible system presently, a Mac OS 10.3.8 with Netscape 7.x.  I've not been able to get the CD written on my Mac I had to use one of the computer labs at school to get it written.  I've sent off for the CD's from Ubuntu already but they haven't arrived yet.  I've not been able to get the live CD burnt.  Also, I remember from SuSe there's a command-line way of installing... type 1 command that brings up a whole list of what to include and not include, then quit that and do a make (make install) IIRC.  Is there a similar way.  I've scowered the CD and the website and haven't found it.  I have a nagging feeling the slides that you told me about and I can't access are what I need to know.
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>>     I hate remembering only half of this stuff.  I've done this years ago, and this case remembering half is worse than remembering nothing, because I so easily misremember.
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>> Thanks In Advance,
>>     Chris
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