Ubuntu-Pakistan How to Run Live CD on legacy Machines?

[Waqas Toor]

Nice find there ... ill surely give it a try ...dont go with ubuntu if
its so slow and if you can download then download xubuntu ... it comes
with xfce desktop and quite good for lagacy machines ... do give it a
try as well

On 12/5/06, Ahmed Mubbashir khan <mubbashir11 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi waqas,
>
> Thanks for your reply, next time i will keep myself patient enough for
> atleast an hour ;) because all that really make sense.
> i found instlux
> pretty handy (as it promissis  alot for easy installation of Ubuntu via XP)
> but wasnt  able to try that out this week end this had a slight problem that
> it can not be used for live CD.
> Kindlyh check it out and let us know its feasibility for peoples like me ;)
> .
>
> Regards
>
> Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
>
>
>
>
> Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi mubashar,
> the thing about slow is mine one took about 1 hr :)
> and you'll face this slow time no matter what if you didnt upgrade your ram
> ... now about tweaking,
> Gnome will consume all of the memory because the swap (virtual mem ) is also
> our ram and gnome also takes a lot of ram ... so what can a computer bechara
> do :)
> what i know that when at the time of boot when the kernel starts to show
> messages of booting and uncompressing linux etc ... try hitting ALT + CTRL +
> F1 key ... this will alow you to switch to not graphical mode ... and then
> wait for the boot process to end and you'll get a login prompt
> then at that time again press ALT + CTRL + F7 key .. and you'll see you
> desktop loaded ... now again a slow process ...but due to this all the fancy
> startup screens will be gone and you'll see you desktop ....
>
>  now if you want to really switch to linux ... try installing linux ... not
> in your system then on some spare system etc ...and upgrade your system if
> you really want to get the feel of Good live cd experience
> --
> Waqas Toor
> member of Ubuntu Pakistani Team
> waqas at ubuntu-pk.org
> http://www.ubuntu-pk.org
>
> Linux *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
> In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and Gates ?
>
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-- 
Waqas Toor
member of Ubuntu Pakistani Team
waqas at ubuntu-pk.org
http://www.ubuntu-pk.org

Linux *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and Gates ?

http://waqastoor.weblog.pk
(Registered Linux user #424056)
ref link http://counter.li.org/