[NBLUG/talk] I need some help installing.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Robert Sterler (robert at sterler.com):

> I have an old (2000 or so) Dell PowerEdge 400SC servers. Pentium4  2.6GHz
> 800MHz front side bus and 4 gigs ECC DDR 400 SDRAM memory. It is 32 bit and
> really well built machines that will run forever. I bought it new and paid
> around $400 for it.

Yeah, those were nice!
https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/400sc_specs.pdf

> I have upgraded the Ram to its max over the years (which
> is really expensive - more than the machine) and have run just about every
> OS on it. 

I'm not sure in this case, but _generally_ in my experience, upgrading
RAM on a Linux machine tends to be the most cost-effective single
upgrade you can perform during its useful economic service life.  But
then, after its useful economic service life has passed (a debatable 
period of time after which it's becoming too obsolete), parts including
RAM start becoming more expensive because they become specialty
merchandise.

But it should also be stressed that ECC RAM is inherently more
expensive.

> I got Ubuntu 17.04 up and running and now have 17.10 working. The main
> problem was the DVD player which was defective. I finally figured it out - I
> kept thinking the error messages were referring to sectors on the sata hard
> drive. Hardware problems are always simple - once you "see" them. 

Guessing:  Sense key errors?  Anyway, yes, those things can be a bit
ambiguous.  Congrats on narrowing down the suspects.

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> Thank you - people here - to help me get my focus. I appreciate this Linux
> community and plan to attend meetings and participate more. I want to learn
> more about the OS and other affiliated things. Thanks again for being here.
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> Robert Sterler
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> From: Robert Sterler [mailto:robert at sterler.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:11 AM
> To: 'talk at nblug.org'
> Subject: I need some help installing. 
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> I am a relative newbie to Linux. I need some help installing. So I bought a
> copy of Ubuntu 17.04 and tried to install it on an old 32 bit computer.
> After booting to the CD it gives me an error message it cannot install for
> many reasons. It will not even run Ubuntu without installing. I know the
> computer works because it will boot into Windows XP. 
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> Any and all help appreciated - I hope to hear from someone soon. Best
> regards. 
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> Robert Sterler
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