Install

Terence Simpson stdin at stdin.me.uk
Thu Sep 20 22:24:17 UTC 2007


Billie Walsh wrote:
> Greg Booth wrote:
>   
>> On 9/20/07, Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Have you tried the alternate install cd?
>>>       
>> Nope. The option I'm thinking of may only be on the alternate install
>> disc. If you don't see the non-graphical installation option on the
>> regular disc, then there's one on the alternate install disc. Or you
>> could install the non-gui LAMP server !!
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>     
>
> This works to answer both.
>
> No, never saw anything about an "alternate" CD, well except a couple 
> mentions on the list. I presume you are talking about the Daper LT. 
> That's about as close as I could see to an alternative to the regular 
> ones. Didn't see anything for Fiesty.
>
> The GUI installer on Freespire worked like a charm. The OS [ KDE ] works 
> fine, if a teeny bit slower than I'm used to [ but the laptop processor 
> is less than half as fast as my desktop to ].
>
> The whole problem was that Kubuntu tried to load and run as a "Live CD" 
> instead of just installing without all that being loaded into memory I 
> REALLY think it would have installed just fine if it hadn't tried to 
> load the whole system into memory first, Like Freespire did.
>
> Install and Run Live CD should be two different options. Install 
> shouldn't run the Live CD first. Just load the installer and go.
>
>   
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/feisty/ < link to the alternate cd,
text mode installer that just installs.

Terence





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