New Precise install

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Thanks Ryan. The slow upgrades I can (grudgingly!) accept, but the total
inability to do a clean install from the disc really puzzles me.

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On Apr 27, 2012 12:43 PM, "Ryan Gauger" <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 04/27/2012 11:27 AM, Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> I'm having an unusually hard time getting 12.04 on my 6(?) year old
> Gateway laptop. It has 1 GB of RAM, 80 GB HDD (all free and, a 1.6GHz
> Turion 64 CPU. I had no problem installing 11.10, but several
> downloads and burns of 12.04 always stopped foreer at the "gear wheel"
> with dots underneath. I've tried both 64 bit and 32 bit versions, and
> the alternate installer 64 bit version, with the same result, it never
> even got to the choice between "test it out" and "install".
>
> Right now I'm in the middle of doing a version upgrade from a brand
> new install of 32 bit 11.10, which seems to be working. It is getting
> new packages very, very slowly, might be finished in 10 hours!
>
> Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is there any fix?
>
> Does this mean that my admittedly obsolete hardware has really reached
> it's end of life for Kubuntu?
>
> Cheers
>
>
>  I have never experienced what you are, but upgrades are *VERY *slow.
>
> In Christ,
> Ryan
>
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