Dell Optiplex 740 fails to load Linux Lite

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You're not 'being dumb' Norm.

I thought Ubuntu came with the inxi program pre-installed on it, but apparently I was wrong.  That's not a big deal.  It's easy to install to the live DVD.

Boot an Ubuntu DVD again, open a terminal and enter these commands one at a time - hit enter after each.

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unit193/inxi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inxi
inxi -Fxz

Basically, those commands add the PPA for the program to the system, then update the list of packages available for install to include packages from the new PPA, then installs 'inxi' program, then runs it.  The program will give a nicely formatted look at all of your hardware specs for the computer.