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I have an older Dell P3-500 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. it would not
run the live cd and wondered off somewhere during startup. I added 256
megs of ram to the existing 128 and everything worked fine, did the
install and installed ndiswrapper and bought a Belkin wireless adapter,
ran the windows install cd and now have a linux wireless laptop that
works fine. <br>
Ed<br>
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<pre wrap="">Your system is rather old, and may experience issues booting newer
Linux kernels. I have had this same issue on an old IBM P3 notebook.
However, I would recommend trying Damn Small Linux, aka DSL. This
distribution is made specifically to help give life to old hardware.
Regards,
Dave
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Weber, Lawrence A <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:laweber@switch.com"><laweber@switch.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have an old IBM E600 Pentium II laptop currently running a buggy Win2k.
It is connected to a wireless network via a PCMCIA card (D-Link). RAM:128,
HD:20G.
I would like to replace the OS with Linux and use it for a simple serial
terminal and occasional wireless web browsing and email. I have tried
XUBUNTU, Slackware and a couple other LiveCD's to see what distro might work
but have not been able to get any to boot. They start but never finish. I
recently tried what I thought was a FreeBSD LiveCD but it also refuses to
get very far into the boot.
Should I be looking at an older version of Linux? Should I expect problems
with the PCMCIA wireless card?
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