Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[Steve]

On 12/28/05, Tom Hines <tomhines at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > What do you mean by failed?  I've had LiveCDs not configure the xserver
> > correctly, which would result in a black screen sometimes.
>
> It just kept churning along slowly, not making progress.  The CDROM
> drive kept making noises, and after about a half hour it managed to
> show the desktop background, but no menus.  It was obviously still
> trying, but after about 45 minutes I gave up.  It seemed to me to be
> symptomatic of insufficient RAM.

It sounds like a bad CD... sometimes a CD can actually work on one
drive and not on another (from what I've experienced anyway). You
might want to try a different CD.