![]() ![]() Ok, so I messed around a little more and found a very straightforward way that worked for me. In short, Ubuntu is too much to handle for this old, old, old computer, so you'll have to use something else. Puppy is so lightweight that it loads itself into the RAM and doesn't even need a hard drive to work! However, if you do want to install onto the hard drive, you can use a frugal install. iso file onto a usb flash drive or a disk burning program such as Brasero to put it onto a CD). It installs on a 1 GB SD card with plenty of room to spare (you can use UNETBOOTIN to put the. Puppy is an extremely lightweight OS that loads itself into the RAM. You could try using Lubuntu instead, it's designed to be lightweight. ![]() On my Ubuntu laptop, with a CORE 2 DUO and 2 GB RAM, usually about 600-800 MB of RAM is being used at a time, with 30-60 MB being used in the swap. My desktop, with an AMD Sempron 1.7 GHz, 2 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GEFORCE Graphics card couldn't, so this old laptop with a 600 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM (specs here) probably can't. If the screen is messed up and the computer is taking a long time to load, then the computer might not be able to handle Ubuntu.
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