[NBLUG/talk] I need some help installing.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Robert Sterler (robert at sterler.com):

> 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. 

1.  Please boot the CD again, this time with a paper and pencil, and
accurately transcribe and then post here those many reasons.

Without any diagnostic information, any aspiring helpers are unable to
proceed because they cannot even know what problem you're encountering.

2.  Also, please provide the make and model of this computer.

(My gut instinct would be that the likeliest roadblock would be
insufficient RAM for Ubuntu 17.04's bloated desktop environment.  If the
machine doesn't have at least 2 GB of physical RAM, you need to try a
Linux distribution that's much less wasteful of hardware resources.
Even with 2GB RAM, I would expect Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop Edition with
default DE to be dog-slow.  Also bare-minimum for that distro:  2GHz
CPU, 25 GB of free disk space.)

Of possible additional interest:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/kicking.html#distro