help installing ubuntu on old computers

[squareyes]

chris wrote:

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>>> 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).
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>> 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
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>>> I appreciate everyone's help.
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>> i enjoy talking to you too.
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>> in northern europe you have to pay to get rid of pentium 3 computers ...
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>> kind regards     philippe
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Hi,
hope you don't have to pay too much, send them to Adelaide South Australia,
have a group here recycling them and making up systems to give away to 
charitable
organizations and anyone who can't afford one.

http://www.itshare.org.au/

Take care
Winton

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