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[iJohnE]

I've decided to try linux on my old Dell which has been horribly corrupted. (Windows 2000 Pro. Was re-installed for no reason 3 times) I am curious though as to how to go about doing this?

Any help is welcome.

John.

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[Don_HH2K]

Linux installers are dead simple nowadays. Go download an ISO image of a Ubuntu installer CD (from here) and burn it , then just boot the computer with the disc in the CD drive and follow the given instructions.

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[iJohnE]

I decided to use Mandrvivia instead.

Because when I went to install Ubuntu; it look as if it was installing then took me to a command log and froze.

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[Edward]

I ran Edubuntu on my legacy Pentium system as a live CD to see how it would run, as they have designed it to run on older systems. I do not know what happened, but the first time I ran it from the CD, it brought up a login prompt!

Since I obviously did not have login information (it should have brought up the desktop automatically), I couldn't do anything with it...

The second time I tried it (a few weeks later), the desktop came up as expected.

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[iJohnE]

Well, I cannot seem to get any OS to install. It'll install (I replaced the hard-drive) but it will not boot (talking about windows). Then when I try to install ubuntu or Mandriva it brings up a bunch of what looks like MS-DOS coding. So, I'll just have to wait until I can get a new computer.

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[Edward]

Well, I cannot seem to get any OS to install. It'll install (I replaced the hard-drive) but it will not boot (talking about windows). Then when I try to install ubuntu or Mandriva it brings up a bunch of what looks like MS-DOS coding. So, I'll just have to wait until I can get a new computer.

I would say you have a bad hard drive, if neither OS will boot up on it.

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[PaulD]

Two random thoughts:
- BIOS - any settings that don't match the new drive?
- Any chance the Master Boot Record is bollixed up?

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