Since all the hardware was in place, I started installing all the O/S's.
A quick split of the 80 GB HDD into two (three actually) partitions, 50 GB for hungry Windows and 30 for Edubuntu and it's swap partition.
Windows
Well, windows started very promisingly indeed. The O/S was installed and running in about 20 minutes which I found impressive considering the age of the hardware. It was not plain sailing however. I hadn't realised just how old Win7 has become until it was time for the updates.
The first installment was a hefty bunch of 77 updates, followed by another 12, then SP1 and finally a handful of updates after that. This operation, unfortunately, took over 3 hours if one includes the 5-6 reboots required.
Nonetheless, the monitor's touch device installed with no issues and the same was the case with ATi's X600 GPU. I also briefly used a wireless USB dongle just to make sure that I would have remote data should I ever need it, after installation. Again, no need for drivers and everything worked out of the box.
Edubuntu
I will start work on installing Edubuntu today and hopefully things should be quicker than Windows at the early stages (although I have a creeping fear that eventually I'll end up tweaking and configuring much much more than I would have to in Windows).
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