after alternative install

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi Qiuli,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:57:45 -0400
"Qiuli Han" <ivyharry at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is the issue
> PII laptop
> 64MB RAM
> no network interface
> got a USB WLAN
> 
> the alternative install is done
> how do i make the GUI work?
> 
I would do it in three easy steps:

1. get more RAM. 
128MB is what I think you need as a bare minimum.
More will certainly do no harm.

2. insert the new RAM and make the laptop accept it

3. on a machine like this, accept that a slim desktop (not KDE,
not Gnome) will be the only option to work rather fluently in
GUI mode.
So use the advantage of ubuntu that you have multiple desktop
choices and issue the command "sudo apt-get xubuntu-desktop"

4. That should do it. If not issue "startxfce" at the command
prompt to start the GUI.

hth
Eberhard