Installing ubuntu on a older system (Pentium Celeron 430 MHz)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:45:01PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

> I wanted to test Ubuntu on a older computer with following hardware:
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron 434 MHz
> mainboard with SIS 5513 chipset
> 10G Fujitsu harddrive
> 64 MB of RAM
> C-Media audio controller (CM738)
> 
> The Ubuntu-CD boots and I can choose LANG- and LOCALE-settings. When CD
> scans for hardware it stops at a point and I can only see the blue
> background (just like a classic BSOD ...). Nothing more happens (I
> waited for nearly an hour). I tried some bootparameters. However all
> combinatons I tried led to the blue screen. Do you have any idea what
> could the reason for this?

Which boot parameters did you try?  Did you look at the other terminals
(alt+f3, alt+f4) to see what messages were displayed?

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 - mdz