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I've been meaning to try out Ubuntu/other flavors of Linux for quite some time now, but I just never got around to it. As luck would have it, I was out today and picked up old computer/monitor combo for 5 bucks!
I was so pleased with my good fortune, I decided that spending a little more money would be perfectly acceptable, not to mention fun. Then it hit me! Blog about it! A journey of starting with a (literally) piece of crap and turning it into a functional *nix workstation.
I inspected the unit before I purchased and noticed that there was no HDD. Good! I won't be tempted to use Windows 98 or whatever I'm sure was on here a while back. I have a clean slate here and I'm sure not going to let it go to waste. I spent the better part of the last hour cleaning the case out of dust and such and decided to disconnect one (out of 3 for some reason) CD drives and the floppy drive. It's one of those old fashioned cases where everything needs a screwdriver to be installed--ugh! I've burnt the Ubuntu desktop CD and am now on my way to the store to pick up a few cheap items: a HDD, mouse, and keyboard.
Pics coming soon! Stay tuned for this journey which I'm sure will be of epic proportions.
EDIT: Foiled! The nearby store had nothing I needed. Off to the internet! (read: Newegg/TigerDirect).
--KYA
I was so pleased with my good fortune, I decided that spending a little more money would be perfectly acceptable, not to mention fun. Then it hit me! Blog about it! A journey of starting with a (literally) piece of crap and turning it into a functional *nix workstation.
I inspected the unit before I purchased and noticed that there was no HDD. Good! I won't be tempted to use Windows 98 or whatever I'm sure was on here a while back. I have a clean slate here and I'm sure not going to let it go to waste. I spent the better part of the last hour cleaning the case out of dust and such and decided to disconnect one (out of 3 for some reason) CD drives and the floppy drive. It's one of those old fashioned cases where everything needs a screwdriver to be installed--ugh! I've burnt the Ubuntu desktop CD and am now on my way to the store to pick up a few cheap items: a HDD, mouse, and keyboard.
Pics coming soon! Stay tuned for this journey which I'm sure will be of epic proportions.
EDIT: Foiled! The nearby store had nothing I needed. Off to the internet! (read: Newegg/TigerDirect).
--KYA
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erik.price
01 August 2009 - 02:58 PM
I recently installed Ubuntu (about 2 months ago) and I love it. There are a few occasional hiccups, getting my USB WiFi device working with Windows drivers, graphics card driver issues, but overall it's a very nice experience. I currently have two partitions on my old (2002) 120GB HDD, 80GB Windows (I had already used ~75 so I allowed for 5GB expansion) and the rest Ubuntu/Kubuntu. If that old computer you picked up could handle it (I doubt it from your description) I'd install the KDE desktop as well as the default GNOME, it does crash a little more than I'd like it to, but the UI is much nicer.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
Good Luck!
Anyway, I'm rambling.
Good Luck!
syfran
01 August 2009 - 03:01 PM
You might want to watch out for the memory requirements on the default ubuntu. It is often a bit more than they can handle. Smaller distribution like Xubuntu should probably work though.
KYA
01 August 2009 - 03:36 PM
Yup, I was taking a look at that. I'll probably get more memory once I boot the damn thing. Why this person had 3 CD/DVD drives is beyond me.
KYA
02 August 2009 - 01:39 PMAdamSpeight2008, on 2 Aug, 2009 - 01:30 PM, said:
Are the CD Roms, Writers?
First one is a (regular?) CD ROM drive (circa, who the hell knows?
) Second one is a DVD (I get that)
and the last one is a CD ROM Writable drive.
So why did they keep the first one still in there?
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