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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:28:34AM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

> * Matt Zimmerman schrieb am 2004-11-03 um 00:11 Uhr:
> > Before it hangs (while it's waiting for input on one of the first screens),
> > switch to console #2 and run:
> > echo 'using_dma:0' > /proc/ide/hdc/settings
> > assuming your CD-ROM is /dev/hdc.  Then switch back to console #1 and
> > continue, and see if that helps.
> 
> Well it didn't find /proc/ide/hdc/settings first. So I tried to modprobe
> cdrom-, ide_cd-modules which also didn't help. What module make the
> above mentioned file?

You'll need to go a few steps forward in the installation before it loads
the necessary modules; forgot about that.

> However I tried ongoing the echo-instruction and at some point it
> worked. Now the installation runs and I hope all will be OK.

Great.

-- 
 - mdz