05-08-14 09:15 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about U'u On A 16YO PC   
      
    PQ> @MSGID: <536B5F01.12888.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    PQ> Hi! Ed,   
      
    PQ> On Mon, 05 May 14, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV> Could U'u 12.04 be installed on a PC with 48Megabytes (Not GB) RAM?   
    EV> The HDD in the PC is smaller than 2GB?   
      
    PQ> Nope.  It needs roughly 1Gb these days, though... just checking   
    PQ> a vBox setting... yeah, the Xubuntu 12.04 LTS vBox is set for   
    PQ> 960Mb.  It's so big that I can't run it & Barb's XP vBox at the   
    PQ> same time any longer.  You have plenty of HDD space there for   
    PQ> something useful at least, Ed.   
      
   Thanks Paul,   
      
   Another person asked me if U'u could/would work on my old AcerNote   
   Light 370P I got in 1998 that has W95 on it.   
      
   The box only will boot up in Safe Mode since the CMOS/BIOS Battery died   
   on it and the Store I bought it from couldn't find where Acer had   
   hidden it so they could put another one in for me.   
      
   I called Acer to see what they said and they gave me a telephone number   
   to call for repairs.   
   I would have had to mail the pc to the place Acer recommended so I   
   just forgot about wanting the Lithium battery replaced.   
      
   The Repair Service did tell me a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) was over   
   the Cell Holder and would have to be moved to replace the Cell.   
   Just never have had the heart to open the case up to see if I could   
   do the job.   
      
   I found out it won't run W95 anymore, only DOS, so I don't use it   
   anymore, but the person who asked me about using it for Linux   
   remembered I have it and wanted to know if he could use it on U'u.   
      
   The laptop came with 16MB RAM and I added the 32MB SODIMM card to it.   
   I don't know if it can use a higher amount of SODIMM RAM or not.?   
      
   I talked to the person yesterday and he told me he bought a used Dell   
   Notebook with XP Professional on it that has 2GB RAM.   
      
   I've told him he could use the Live U'u CD without installing U'u on   
   his pc, OR (there I go again) put it on his Dell and Dual Boot either   
   Operating System.   
      
    EV> OR   
      
    PQ> Hang on.  Is this a test?  Nope.  It ain't in Holger's list.   
    PQ> Phew!  :)   
      
   OR isn't on my list of Ham Radio abbreviations either, my OR above just   
   meant 'or' as in a 2nd question to You about Linux, since I consider   
   You to be the resident Linux GURU here on the FIDO Windows 95 echo.   
      
   I agree with You, Phew!  :)   
   Thanks for the help.   
      
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