Ah! see … folks go on and on and on about how lovely and shiny Linux is, and how much better it is than Windows.
So I dug out Jane’s old PC and fired it up with the Live CDs of:
- Ubuntu 7.10 – didn’t load the Live CD
- Ubuntu 6.06 – loaded Live CD, but wouldn’t install
- Kubuntu 7.10 – didn’t load the Live CD
- Kubuntu 6.06 – loaded Live CD, got bored waiting for install
- Xubuntu 7.10 – didn’t load the Live CD … and it’s for old, crap PCs!! 😉
- Ubuntu 5.whatever – installing right now, but won’t recognise the network
Not as easy as these so-called experts make it out to be, ay!
Mind you, it probably doesn’t help that Jane’s old PC is made from twigs and previously ran Windows 98. 😉
Update
00:19 Monday
I really should have added the wink 😉 at the end of the last paragraph — I’ve added it now.
Woohoo! I persevered as Ubuntu 6.06 seemed to get so far before falling over.
So after updating the PC’s BIOS — after much detective work I discovered that the motherboard is a M810L v.7.1a from PCChips — I was able to boot to the Ubuntu Live CD and install from there … once I’d used GParted to manually delete all the partitions on my hard drive.
Thanks for the advice Richard, but I really wanted to check out Ubuntu having used it very successfully before. And I’m not the kind of person who just gives up because something’s not working. That’s how I learn. 🙂