I'm near Kaiwaka at the moment, until Saturday morning, visiting my parents.� Downloading another ISO is not really an option -- no spare CDs to burn to, and it'd chew through my parents' data cap quickly.� This is a fresh installation of Lucid -- that and Gutsy were the only Ubuntu distros that I could get to install -- all the other discs I had were corrupted in some way, and my Karmic CD was for x64.

Also, as I'm in this location, getting a CD from anyone else is also pretty much not an option.� I do have an image for the latest version of Puppy Linux I could try, although it's a bit basic, and I'm unfamiliar with some of how it works, such as package management.

I might have to give up the idea of two computers and try taking the RAM from this 'new' one and putting it into their current machine, which has only 224MB available RAM, and running an install of XP Home.

Sandy


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13 July 2010 08:45, Chakat Sandwalker <sandwalker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggestions?� I'm starting to think installing Lucid was a bad idea.

I'd be tempted to try some other distros and see if they had the same
problem. �I took that approach with my laptop to find a distro that
coped with the wireless network adapter. �Ubuntu Lucid works well, but
some earlier versions of Ubuntu didn't.

I'm assuming you've got any data that needs keeping has been
transferred to off-line storage. �Installing and testing a distro
should only take about an hour at most.

If the computer supports boot from a USB device, booting from an
external CD drive would allow you to test much more quickly and
without having to do an install.