Thank you very much @anon42388993, this is very valuable information. I do not claim that I understand it completely, but I can now say that I have successfully installed UM 16.04 on this old laptop. Only the DVD drive is not working on this machine and I have started a separate thread on this here. I haven’t tried Gparted yet @wolfman but this will be one of my next projects in the future. 
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