Miojine
February 9th, 2010, 12:38 AM
I have a Gateway Solo, with a 4.2 GB hard drive and approximately 95 MB of RAM (upgraded and rounded), running WIndows 2000 Professional. The exact model is Gateway Solo 9300 Notebook. I have the most recent Ubuntu version (9.10, I believe) on a disk, ready to go, but I had a couple of questions first.
1. Will it auto-wipe my Windows if I just put the disk in the drive and follow the prompts? I don't have enough space free for both (currently 31.3 MB of Hard Drive space free- Hello, Daggerfall), and don't want to screw this up. I only have $200 towards a good computer.
2 Is there word processor compatibility between Linux and Windows/OSX? I can't get the correct drivers for any printers, and do school essays on this piece of junk, and need them to be in a .doc format for printing.
3. Can I go straight to this most recent version? I heard something about an earlier version being needed first.
4. The big one. Can my computer handle this? Will I lag like hell just running this? If I lag/can't run it, I'll just stick with my 2k.
This is all because of my large blue screen history (over 10 last year, only used it for 4 months), and I want a fresh start. help, please.
1. Will it auto-wipe my Windows if I just put the disk in the drive and follow the prompts? I don't have enough space free for both (currently 31.3 MB of Hard Drive space free- Hello, Daggerfall), and don't want to screw this up. I only have $200 towards a good computer.
2 Is there word processor compatibility between Linux and Windows/OSX? I can't get the correct drivers for any printers, and do school essays on this piece of junk, and need them to be in a .doc format for printing.
3. Can I go straight to this most recent version? I heard something about an earlier version being needed first.
4. The big one. Can my computer handle this? Will I lag like hell just running this? If I lag/can't run it, I'll just stick with my 2k.
This is all because of my large blue screen history (over 10 last year, only used it for 4 months), and I want a fresh start. help, please.