Installing Ubuntu in a very poor performace machine...

[arshad]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 07:46 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> arshad wrote:
> > A friend of mine needs to have Ubuntu installed in his machine which
> >  has 10GB HDD, 128mb RAM, 32mb VGA, 800GHz processor.
> > I tried installing hardy, jaunty and karmic but all got stuck in the
> > middle for some reasons i don't know. I think its due to the low
> > resources of the machine.
> 
> Yes, the problem is the low amount of RAM. You need at least 256MB for 
> Ubuntu. As an alternative you'd better use Xubuntu which works with 
> 128MB. But I think you should use the alternate CD because the Live CD 
> still needs 192MB to install Xubuntu.
> 
> > Is it possible to install jaunty in his hdd by plugging it into my
> > motherboard?
> 
> Yes. But you'd better not install proprietary drivers like the Nvidia or 
> ATI graphics drivers if the other machine doesn't have the same chipset. 
> And again you'd better install Xubuntu due to the low memory on the 
> target machine.
> 
> However isn't it possible to install additional memory modules on that 
> machine to have at least 512MB? These modules are rather cheap and a 
> mainboard for 800MHz should support that amount of memory. That would 
> considerably improve the performance.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 

Thank you very much all,
Iv asked him to downlaod xubuntu alternative.
Will get back to you with the latest updates.

thanks.