Installing Ubuntu Linux on an older PC

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:08 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> I am not able to help you, except to say that I have found that Ubuntu seems 
> to boot fine on old PCs with new CDROM drives. I have found that it doesn't 
> boot on certain old drives that I have. Perhaps you could get hold of a new 
> drive and see what happens.

... and the other Duncan on this list says:

This is a basic question. have you gone into bios to make sure it checks
the CD drive for a possible boot source? If you did you should have
mentioned this in your initial question - saves everyone time. If you
didn't the procedure is (usually):

1. Press [del] repeatedly while you start the system, or wait for a
message like "press delete to enter setup" to appear. On some systems
the keys are different. I think it's [f4] on Dell systems
2. Go into the different bios settings using your keyboard. Look for
'Boot procedure' or 'Boot order' or something similar. Make sure your CD
drive appears and is _before_ your hard drive.
3. Save changes and exit. Reboot (it does this itself)

Does that help?

Duncan