Install Problems

[Lakhveer Jajj]

>On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> >On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> >> I try the normal install and I get an error about BIOS age (1998) fails
> >> cutoff (2000) acpi=force is required to enable ACPI.
>
> >That's a red herring.  It doesn't want to do ACPI because it thinks
> >your BIOS is likely too old.
> >It's likely right.  Ignore it, and it will do the right thing.
> >Forcing it to use ACPI anyway might cause issues.
>
> >With 256 meg of ram, you are probably better to install via the
> >Alternate CD and accept a sluggish (but useable) Ubuntu, or consider
> >Xubuntu or similar.
>
> >I'm finding 384Meg seems to be about the lower limit for most people's
> patience.
>
> >Brian
>
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> >All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
> >-> gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
>
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If you really want Ubuntu find a older version. It wouldn't be very updated
and there wouldn't be a lot of new programs with it as well.
It depends whether or not that you want it.
If I was in your position I would upgrade or buy a cheap reasonable
computer.

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Lakhveer Jajj
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