Ubuntu Lite

[Minarwan (Min)]

Damian,

For a comparison, my laptop is Compaq Presario 700, made in 2001 I
believe, running on Feisty, no problem at all.

Is yours older than mine? If not, you should give it a try (installing feisty).

Minarwan


On 8/9/07, Damian Nolan <djnolz at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> I have an old(er) laptop lying around at home and wanted to get Ubuntu
> up and running on that, but it seems that even Edgy was a bit much for it.
> I read somewhere about there being a project around called Ubuntu Lite,
> Which aimed to do the same things as Ubuntu, plus allow it to be run on
> low-end machines.
> Everytime I try and search for it, I seem to get nowhere. The "official"
> homepage doesnt exist anymore (http://www.ubuntulite.org) and when I
> find instructions on how to install it, it tells me that I need a server
> disc to be able to do it.
> I have downloaded 3 server discs, and none of them seem to boot when I
> try to boot from them!
> I somehow get the feeling that they are not being burned right, or they
> are missing something in the first place. Even the ones that I
> downloaded from the official page did the same thing.
> Am I missing something?
>
> BTW, Laptop spec: 850Mhz, 512Mb Ram, 40Gb HDD
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