Most of the up-to-date prepatched distros are working allmost the same way and what they all have in common is that it doesn't work just to install one of them, as this is still not about having a cheap Macintosh alternative - thankfully it's not.
You can be pretty sure that you'll won't get a fully working setup until you are not willing to gain the necessary knowledge - knowledge which is allmost entirely avaible on the internet - just waiting for beeing looked up.

Propably you've got more then 2GB of RAM?

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