mac-christian
February 3rd, 2010, 11:48 PM
Hi all
I tried to installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an older Sony Vaio laptop (model PCG-XG9) with 20 GB HD and 128 or 256 MB RAM (not sure). There is no ethernet port, but I have a PCMCIA WLAN card "Cabetron RoamAbout 11 Mbit/s, which should work perfectly with any Linux.
The computer had Win98 on it originally (which, of course, after all installation attempts is now destroyed). The problem is that I cannot install to the end at all - no matter what I try:
1) Having the disk as a single FAT partition (made by a Win98 installation CD), it appears that Ubuntu cannot create the correct partitions needed for Linux.
2) Having deleted the DOS partition with FDISK from Windows98 - which is like buying a completely new, unformatted HD from a store - the installer just stops and does not do anything.
Is there a manual / instruction page somewhere how I should partition the disk manually (how to do it, and what sizes are recommended for each partition)? I do _not_ want to have any Windows partition left, if not absolutely necessary.
This would be great. Thank you, Christian
I tried to installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an older Sony Vaio laptop (model PCG-XG9) with 20 GB HD and 128 or 256 MB RAM (not sure). There is no ethernet port, but I have a PCMCIA WLAN card "Cabetron RoamAbout 11 Mbit/s, which should work perfectly with any Linux.
The computer had Win98 on it originally (which, of course, after all installation attempts is now destroyed). The problem is that I cannot install to the end at all - no matter what I try:
1) Having the disk as a single FAT partition (made by a Win98 installation CD), it appears that Ubuntu cannot create the correct partitions needed for Linux.
2) Having deleted the DOS partition with FDISK from Windows98 - which is like buying a completely new, unformatted HD from a store - the installer just stops and does not do anything.
Is there a manual / instruction page somewhere how I should partition the disk manually (how to do it, and what sizes are recommended for each partition)? I do _not_ want to have any Windows partition left, if not absolutely necessary.
This would be great. Thank you, Christian