Originally Posted by bkdc

Maybe I'll give them both a try once I get a new hard drive for an old HP that I salvaged form a friend that was trashing it.

I had xandros on an hp pavillion. It was old, 900mhz Athlon, but it was unkillable.. Would never die. Had most screws missing and a lot of masking tape inside :P

thanks guys for all of your help so far - I will keep trying to get ubuntu.

I have installed PcLinuxOS 2007 - easy to setup and it is great.

Linux rocks.