9.04 upgrade woes, grub boot cd?

[woodowrks]

I have an *old* 486 computer running ubuntu 904 (which as you all know is unsupported). I have installed the lubuntu-desktop so it boots well and displays, etc.

I cannot get it to boot to live cd anymore, no amount of bios fiddling will make it do so.

Is there a way to have grub boot a live 10.04 cd so I can do the install that way?

When I try and do apt-get update, it can't find any repositories. using update-manager it cycles endlessly. So i'd like to do a fresh install or go directly from 9 to 10.04-LTS

any ideas appreciated

(yeah, its only got 128 megs memory)

[mörgæs]

With such a computer, I would go for Puppy Linux.

[ajgreeny]

I am very surprised that you managed to run 9.04 on 128MB ram, but as yu found, Lubuntu would run, even if slowly. Are you sure there is not more than 128MB in the machine.

I can not, however, see why it will now not boot from CD if it did in the past unless the CD drive has gone bad. Can you read CDs in the drive using Lubuntu?

[woodowrks]

as far as being able to boot from CD, i did change out the cd/dvd drive at one time, maybe its on the wrong ribbon (ie, not slave anymore)

according to winXP (yes it boots also) hardrive is position 0,0 and cd/dvd 1,1

Oh, and i stand corrected its 256 memory