<div dir="ltr">Hey Kai,<br><br>Yep - use the alternate ISO that you can download. It is fully text based and will work a charm.<br>If you don't need a GUI, then go for the server version :)<br><br>Cheers<br>Blake<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/3 Keith Bawden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith@bawdo.com">keith@bawdo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 18:36, Kai <<a href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au">vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> How are we all ? enjoying the cold, windy days down in Perth,<br>
<br>
</div>Nope I'm in balmy Tokyo :-)<br>
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> Is there a text only mode or something which I haven't figured out,<br>
<br>
</div>A little googling suggest you need the "alternate install CD"<br>
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<a href="http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.04.1/" target="_blank">http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.04.1/</a><br>
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> If Ubuntu isn't recommended for older machines I'm all ears for any<br>
> feedback.<br>
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</div>Will this be a desktop machine? If so then I don't think your choice<br>
of distro will be as limiting a factor as your choice of window<br>
manager. Maybe something like xfce, wmaker or my personal choice wmii.<br>
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Regards, Keith<br>
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