[olug] Compaq Presario 5080US

[Rob Townley]

i have run Knoppix Live CDs and hard drive installs very successfully on
Presarios much older than this.

On 2/15/07, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:37, Paul & Debbie Lewis wrote:
> > Help anyone,
> >
> >     I got a Compaq Presario 5080US from my sister-in-law and am
> wondering
> > how hard would it be to make it into a Linux box?  I know that Compaq
> uses
> > a lot of goofy drivers just to make Windows work nicely with the CD
> drives
> > and other things.  Has anyone experienced problems with Linux on one of
> > these boxes?
>
> Paul,
> I'd grab a Ubuntu or Kubuntu CD and throw it in the CD-ROM drive and see
> what
> happens. (give me a shout if you need one) You can check the hardware
> without
> actually installing the OS, and chances are very good you will have no
> problems.   The specs on this machine say it had 128MB SyncDRam, and I'd
> try
> and bring it up to 256MB if I was using Gnome or KDE.
>
> Dave Thacker
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