Re: [sheflug] Installing (k)ubuntu 6.06

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:36 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:23 +0100, Chris J wrote:
> > Question for those of you using (K)ubuntu. I'm looking at installing this
> > (well specifically Kubuntu) on the other half's machine in the next day or
> > two, but I've not found any decent documentation about the install process.
> 
> Ah, you need to look in the right places ;)
> 
> 	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall
> 
> There is a text-mode installer too, but if you can't use the graphical
> one, Ubuntu probably isn't for you. I believe Kubuntu uses the same
> installer as Ubuntu.

I found that the graphical installer was flaky installing Xubuntu on a
machine with 128 MB of RAM (i.e. it hung or otherwise failed to install
at least twice) even though 128 MB is the minimum recommended RAM. I
found the alternative text mode installer useful in that case.

I'm most impressed with Xubuntu for older machines. I have a perfectly
usable PII 233 running here with Xubuntu now, which is going to a
neighbour in need of a web browser and word processor.

regards,

Seb

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