Alternate CD iso for v4.07 Ubuntu corrupt

ac "aec$news" at candt.waitrose.com
Tue Jun 26 11:18:17 UTC 2007


Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> ac wrote:
>> Tom Palaskas wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>> My laptop is a P3 with only 256Mb RAM so it can't handle the install
>>> from the normal graphical CD. I downloaded the Alternate text-based CD
>>> iso (Ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso) and did ...
> 
> Hi,
> I would strongly recommend to use the _x_ubuntu iso on such a machine.
> 
> With 256MB Ram, you should probably be fine with the graphical install,
> However, the xubuntu alternate iso will install much quicker. Most
> important, imho Xubuntu will give your machine a new life.

yes, I found this also. However, I had he ubuntu cd, and I was patient 
with ubuntu slowness during install and subsequently just installed the
xubuntu-desktop package
from ubuntu repositiories.
-- 
ac





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