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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu on an old Gateway 450

 

I have just installed Puppy on a very old machine for a friend and it
works fine, running off an old 32mb pen drive (no hard drive in machine
so less moving parts to go wrong). However, the aim was to provide
internet access only.

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 13:54 +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> Was trying to run Ubuntu on a old desktop but failed: the only error
> message I could see was "Kernel loaded" but the machine would stick on
> "Loading key drivers"
> 
> Was planning to give the machine away as a safe machine so this is
> irritating
> 
> Odd thing is that Knoppix runs just fine
> 
> Any ideas about what I can try
> 
> 
> --
> Henry
> Sun Oct  8 13:54:26 BST 2006
> 
> 


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