I have a really old laptop which I have recently installed Lucid 10.04.4 Server on because it would not support newer versions. Instead of an ethernet cable it has an internal modem with a phone line connection on the outside. It was designed for Windows 98! I cannot work out how to fix my wifi adaptor in terminal. I really want to have a desktop enviroment or at least a window manager with which to manually launch my apps on. How can I carry over files from my internet connected ubuntu 13.10 laptop to this old one and get them working? Thanks for ur help!
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Download, burn and install Lubuntu from an alternate install disk. You will find all the information needed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO
I have found that you can simply carry over the .deb files on a usb and use dpkg -i to install them. This worked perfectly for me!