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technologicme
January 28th, 2013, 12:26 AM
?:Is it possible to install xubuntu or lubuntu on a xp machine circa 2003
Bucky Ball
January 28th, 2013, 12:29 AM
Thread moved to Installation & Upgrades
I see no reason why not. Download the ISO (torrent best, safest, quickest way), burn a disk, boot from that and try it out to see if everything works.
Do you know what CPU you have and how much RAM?
technologicme
January 28th, 2013, 12:43 AM
Thread moved to Installation & Upgrades
I see no reason why not. Download the ISO (torrent best, safest, quickest way), burn a disk, boot from that and try it out to see if everything works.
Do you know what CPU you have and how much RAM?
Processor
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Version: x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4
Speed: 2412 MHz Memory (RAM)
Capacity: 768 MB
Bucky Ball
January 28th, 2013, 12:46 AM
Should be all good. Burn the disks of each and give them a try. They run directly from the disk and you will have an icon on the desktop giving you the option to install .
technologicme
January 28th, 2013, 12:54 AM
Should be all good. Burn the disks of each and give them a try. They run directly from the disk and you will have an icon on the desktop giving you the option to install . so i can't boot it from a usb flash drive on that old machine i have to burn it onto a disk first then boot it from there
Bucky Ball
January 28th, 2013, 12:55 AM
You can use a USB dongle, sure. You need the appropriate application to make a bootable one, of course. You can't just dump the ISO to the thumb drive and boot from it ... nothing will happen.
Nburnes
January 28th, 2013, 01:13 AM
You can use a USB dongle, sure. You need the appropriate application to make a bootable one, of course. You can't just dump the ISO to the thumb drive and boot from it ... nothing will happen.
Well boot from USB does depend on his/her BIOS supporting it. A computer from 2003 may really be pushing it.
Bucky Ball
January 28th, 2013, 01:15 AM
Well boot from USB does depend on his/her BIOS supporting it. A computer from 2003 may really be pushing it.
Possibly correct. Perhaps the OP can enlighten us on this (their suggestion so guessing it is possible).
technologicme
January 28th, 2013, 01:23 AM
You can use a USB dongle, sure. You need the appropriate application to make a bootable one, of course. You can't just dump the ISO to the thumb drive and boot from it ... nothing will happen.I have xbuntu lubuntu kubuntu ubuntu on a transend flash drive i go into the bios an move it up to boot 1 but it still will not boot from the flash drive but it works on my windows 7 laptop an i installed ubuntu on a dual boot
Bucky Ball
January 28th, 2013, 01:25 AM
Hmm. Odd that it won't boot from the same USB device you have used to install on another machine.
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