[ale] Ubuntu 6.10 install

[Mark Wright]

Yeah these are all old machines.  The compaq laptop is the weakest.   
The problem is that these machines run other distros fine.  I had  
4.10 on the laptop and have installed w2k on it a few times to assist  
special needs.  The desktop I want to put it on currently has  
Mandrake 2005 LE on it.

Ubuntu won me over with the Warty release because it ran on  
everything I could boot it on.

On this release I am having trouble with the "live" portion of the  
install.  The machines that I cannot install on won't run the live  
image.

I am currently writing another CD at 4x as Alex suggested.

I'll let you know if this helps.

Mark



On Nov 22, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:33 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
>> I have been trying to install 5.10 on a laptop so I could upgrade to
>> 6.10 and I am getting a failure at the step after the kernel  
>> loads.  I
>> think that I may have too small a disk(5.1g).  However the problem
>> with the other installs is that the 6.10 disk hangs before it gets  
>> the
>> live setup started.  I have used this disk on 3 computers without
>> success and 1 successfully.
>>
>>
>> I found the memory required to run 6.10 is 128 so that disqualifies
>> one of the machines I tried to install on but I am stumped as to why
>> the others won't work.
>>
>>
>> I thought about downloading the iso again but I do have one working
>> install from this disk.
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> What's the CPU specs for those computers?   BIOS versions?
>
> Note: I think that Ubuntu is more focused on newer hardware.
>
> -Jim P.
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