installing in text mode

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at numericable.fr
Fri Jul 28 01:49:50 UTC 2006


William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to install ubuntu on a dual p3 1g server. But the video card only
> has 8mg ram I would like to know how to install into text mode or very
> low gui mode ?

8MB should be good enough, I installed Ubuntu (was Breezy back then) with a 10+ year old Matrox Millenium II video card, which I think has 4MB of RAM, and it all worked perfectly...

If you want to the text installer anyway (as I do), just go download the "Alternate" CD (toward the bottom of the page) :

http://releases.ubuntu.com/dapper/

--
Vince




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