installation trouble

[Kevin Jones]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:51:34 -0400, "Ed Mizzi" <emizzi at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> I am working with an old Dell Inspiron 5000, P-3 with 192 MB RAM and 6.4
GB
> hard drive. The point I'm at is as follows...
>  
> -start computer
> -first black screen asks me to choose Win98 or Ubuntu
> -if I choose WIN98, no problems
> -if I choose Ubuntu see below...
> -it starts loading the 8.04 ver. CD but takes literally hours to load
> -when finally loaded I click on Install Ubuntu...no windows pop up, no
> choices are given, the CD simply starts running
> -I leave it run for hours longer, thinking that it's formatting my drive
> and
> installing Ubuntu and then nothing...computer shuts down
> -I'm back to square one
>  
> Any ideas would help, please
>  
> Note: I am not planning to keep both Operating systems on this comp. I
> simply want to run Ubuntu. Can I simply format the drive in the WIN98
> system
> and then somehow install Ubuntu?
>  
> Thanks
> Eddy
> 
>


see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems



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