[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Kai]

Hi Blake,

I followed the link given by Keith and 17% through downloading the i386 
iso now.

Don't need a gui, but figured I may as well have a look at it, see how 
well it performs on this old Presario 2200 laptop which got handed to me 
yesterday with no documentation and no disks - just the laptop and carry 
bag. Previous owners didn't want it 'cause it "didn't work", it was full 
of malware, errors and crap. I reinstalled it with eXPensive and that 
works fine so I'll give Ubuntu a go and see how it performs :)

That and the old PIII 600 desktop form factor machine I have sitting 
here with Fedora 4 on it, wanna wipe that and install with Ubuntu since 
I find Debian's package management to be so much easier than Fedora/Red 
Hat RPM's

Cheers
Kai

Blake Munro wrote:
> Hey Kai,
> 
> Yep - use the alternate ISO that you can download. It is fully text 
> based and will work a charm.
> If you don't need a GUI, then go for the server version :)
> 
> Cheers
> Blake
> 
> 2008/8/3 Keith Bawden <keith at bawdo.com <mailto:keith at bawdo.com>>
> 
>     On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 18:36, Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au
>     <mailto:vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>      > How are we all ? enjoying the cold, windy days down in Perth,
> 
>     Nope I'm in balmy Tokyo :-)
> 
>      > Is there a text only mode or something which I haven't figured out,
> 
>     A little googling suggest you need the "alternate install CD"
> 
>     http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.04.1/
> 
>      > If Ubuntu isn't recommended for older machines I'm all ears for any
>      > feedback.
> 
>     Will this be a desktop machine? If so then I don't think your choice
>     of distro will be as limiting a factor as your choice of window
>     manager. Maybe something like xfce, wmaker or my personal choice wmii.
> 
>     Regards, Keith