After having the PC fry itself under Win98SE, well not fry itself but just stop working and be a total pain to get going again; and even then badly, I've finally got Ubuntu underway.
I got there by installing Open Suse Linux alongside a barely working Win 98 then not being able to install Open Suse, so it booted from the hard drive, and always having to boot from the CD, but it got me on the net and I limped along till Mum's friend's boyfriend was here dropping off a Christmas present for Mum and I asked him for a bootable Ubuntu to install. The CD arrived this morning and it was an .iso so I had to $uck around in windows to get nero installed to burn a bootable version which I got and then installed Ubuntu 10.04 and then waited 2 hrs for the upgrades to install.
Now I've got a few options to consider. The major one is reinstalling windows over Ubuntu and doing a complete reformat and putting on windows again and then doing Ubuntu on the leftover space once I get the win 98 programs like cool edit and photoshop7 that I know about installed and running. The other option is to just go completely Linux and learn similar programs that are available open source. What will determine this going one way or the other is attachment of stuff like scanners, cameras, soundcard stuff and suchlike. I'll try connecting it all with Ubuntu and see what works.
Maybe it's best to persevere at least for a while under Ubuntu for everything at least until I pick up a DVD writer so I can burn the versions of XP I have.
I liked Ubuntu on my laptop until the graphics drivers buggered up so maybe this is the way to go.
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