installing an operating system

[bd123]

I bought a used Compaq armada m700 laptop Pentium 2 with no operating system, when I try to load Ubuntu program it starts to load but then goes to a black screen and the computer doesn't respond. the computer originally had the windows 98 install. any ideas?

[hardradio]

It's most likely a hardware mismatch... I would verify with http://www.xubuntu.org/ as I know they have very limited hardware support.  Or you might try a different flavor of *NIX such as Red Hat, Solaris, or FreeBSD

Wiki on Ubuntu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distribution)

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