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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,920

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Got an old laptop...

Hi,

I have got an old laptop for my youngest ... a sony vaio pcg-n505sn

It has an external cdrom drive so I had to use usb pendrive to hold live iso image as disc would boot then drop out to reduced shell [since found a kernel line that may get round this!]

Anyway managed to get DSL running on it seems ok

Goes against the grain but I may try to install Xubuntu as it does not have ethernet port only usb she does not need web access likes to use Tuxpaint Abiword Potato Guy ;-)

Weird a couple of years ago I was worried about installing Linux on my computer...now well .... I blame Arch for new found knowledge 

MrG

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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: Got an old laptop...

You have children?! :shock:

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,920

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Re: Got an old laptop...

two ..... working on third lol

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,920

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Re: Got an old laptop...

Ok installed Xubuntu took a while but no real problems ... could do with net

no ethernet so may have to hook router via usb [usbnet!]

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