messed up partition table reinstalling windows 98

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 23:49 -0600, debiani386 wrote:
> Some machines just cant handle linux, especially ubuntu. I recall back
> earlier this month, i installed the oldest ubuntu i had (5.04) on a
> friends laptop (233 mhz with 64mb ram and 8 gig hdd). It worked, but
> it crawled.

This is not "some machines", this is "all machines with way less RAM
than stated in the requirements". Xubuntu might be a better choice, or
maybe you want to run not even Xfce, but a simpler window manager in
such cases.  http://xwinman.org/