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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'>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. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'>Robert Sterler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:robert@sterler.com"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>robert@sterler.com</span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1326B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Robert Sterler [<a href="mailto:robert@sterler.com">mailto:robert@sterler.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'talk@nblug.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> I need some help installing. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Any and all help appreciated – I hope to hear from someone soon. Best regards. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Robert Sterler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:robert@sterler.com"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>robert@sterler.com</span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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