[brillser]

Hi all,
I just saved an older dell computer from certain death, my friend, being sick and tired of it and it's attitude intended to throw it in the bin.
I took it to my house and replaced the hard drive (with one 20gig and one 10 gig), the cd drive (with a cd/dvd burner combo) and the CMOS battary.
I first tryed to install windows, after a few attempts, it took windows up, but no hard drives in the BIOS. (had to fiddle with jumper swiches here.)
So I installed Ubuntu. Now both disks are in the BIOS and it seems I can install and/or uninstall which ever OS I chose.
I chose Ubuntu but I surely need more than 256 RAM.
I did have it dual boot, but when I pluged into the sound card with my head set everything froze, in both OS's. conflict.
Right now I have just unbuntu on the 20gig. It won't play dvd's or music cd's
It Asks me for the code to my router/modem, but when I enter it, it asks me again and so on.
It says it's looking for updates, but what kind of sence can that make with a 6 year old m/c?
This is the first time I've ever used linux, so be gentle with me

[Wonder-Downunder]

yeah wiyh only 256mb ram running gnome will be a problem try Fluxbox or Enlightenment less of a resource hog

you can download Fluxbuntu

OR even try Dam Small Linux 4.3 its very good for older PC's or even PuppyLinux

[prunejuice]

Fluxbuntu or Xubuntu.

Xubuntu runs decently on my 256MB RAM laptop.

[brillser]

thanks for the advice guys,
This is quite an adventure for me, I'm having the time of my life, where others might be perplexed. I think that it was linux that restored my bios settings where windows would not, but I'm not sure as I changed the switch on the main drive just before I put the linux disk in.
Is it ok for me to use my main monster of a pc to download app's, drivers and/or updates for the older thing?
Thanks again, oh' and the chess game is magic.