Wanted to try Ubuntu on 2 Pentium D dual core emachine computers I have. (Only half a Gig I think, might have upgraded, will check.) Found 13.10 needs a DVD burnt which I didn't have so I loaded an old 6.x CD, thought I could upgrade it live from there. Able to load/use 6.x overwriting XP just fine. Couldn't figure how to upgrade it live and machine won't boot from USB. Then I got DVDs, a burner & burnt a 13.10 32 bit desktop, but it hangs on language selection overwriting 6.x. Saw other posts advising to remove USB kbd. Am using PS/2 kbd and mouse. Was able to bring it up on 13.10 in "trial" mode and tried to do the install from there and it hung same place.
UPDATE: the machine had 1.5G in it and it's a 2.66G processor. I tried Lubuntu 13.10 and it hung at the same place. Both Ubuntu & Lubuntu 13.10 would run from the disk. I tried something I thought wouldn't work (loading the emachine's hard drive on a different computer) and it boots and most of the apps work but the network won't connect. I figure that is because the install was built with the wrong nic but it's not real clear how to fix that and I imagine sound and other on board stuff won't work right. Oh and I couldn't set the resolution so that I could gracefully shutdown the machine without bringing up a command prompt. So I figure it's probably not worth trying to fix all the stuff that was built incorrectly by installing on a different computer.
So there has to be something that is keeping it from loading. Guess I'll try the earlier versions.
