[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:36 +0800, Kai wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> How are we all ? enjoying the cold, windy days down in Perth, thankfully 
> I"m still at home, in Broome, soaking up the sun and enjoying the warmth 
> before I come back for my final stage of initial training.
> 
> Anyway, back on topic though, I'm trying to install some old machines 
> here with Ubuntu 8.04, they're PIII 600 with 128 megs of RAM... so far I 
> get as far as the "Install" screen which lets you select the items you 
> want to install and all that, but, to get that far takes a good hour...

As others have advised, you need to install from the 'alternate' cd. I
have a cel400 with 6gb hd and 128mb ram on which I put the alternate
8.04 with xfce desktop. Ran fine, allowing some waiting in accordance
with the slower, older processor. Plus you obviously can't have too many
apps running at once or swap thrashes and things grind verryyyy
slowly ;-)

Gavin