Cyber Akuma
November 8th, 2008, 02:01 PM
I have a very old laptop, its a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT.
It has a 200MHZ Pentium 2 CPU and 128 megs of what I assume is SDRAM, which is it's maximum limit.
Windows 2000 has been running PAINFULLY slow lately on it to the point of being unusable, so I decided to install a distro of Linux on it with hopes that it will run little better, since I heard that many linux distros can run well on older hardware. Originally the system had Windows 98, but I forgot why, I needed to upgrade to Windows 2000 on it for something, so I can't go back to Win98 since im sure I will eventually bump into what forced me to upgrade last time.
However, I tried looking and most distros demanded 196 or 256 megs of ram as a minimum to work.
Finally I ran into Xubuntu which claimed to only need 128 megs to run live desktop or install and 64 megs to run after install.
However, I can't get the Xubuntu disk to work. If I try to live desktop, it takes about 15 minutes to load, then it just stays on a blank desktop with a firefox and help icon on the top left of the screen and the time on the top right, nothing else loads, no drop-down menus or anything. Nothing responds.
Trying the installer, a window appears with close/maximize/minimize buttons but thats it, nothing appears IN the window and nothing else loads. Nothing responds.
Anybody have any ideas what I can do to either get Xubuntu working or know of a better distro to use on such an old machine?
It has a 200MHZ Pentium 2 CPU and 128 megs of what I assume is SDRAM, which is it's maximum limit.
Windows 2000 has been running PAINFULLY slow lately on it to the point of being unusable, so I decided to install a distro of Linux on it with hopes that it will run little better, since I heard that many linux distros can run well on older hardware. Originally the system had Windows 98, but I forgot why, I needed to upgrade to Windows 2000 on it for something, so I can't go back to Win98 since im sure I will eventually bump into what forced me to upgrade last time.
However, I tried looking and most distros demanded 196 or 256 megs of ram as a minimum to work.
Finally I ran into Xubuntu which claimed to only need 128 megs to run live desktop or install and 64 megs to run after install.
However, I can't get the Xubuntu disk to work. If I try to live desktop, it takes about 15 minutes to load, then it just stays on a blank desktop with a firefox and help icon on the top left of the screen and the time on the top right, nothing else loads, no drop-down menus or anything. Nothing responds.
Trying the installer, a window appears with close/maximize/minimize buttons but thats it, nothing appears IN the window and nothing else loads. Nothing responds.
Anybody have any ideas what I can do to either get Xubuntu working or know of a better distro to use on such an old machine?