[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Kai]

Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-)

I was trying to install it on a presario 2200 lappy but the CD-ROM drive 
in that just decided to die on me....pain in the arm !

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