RAM Requirements & Floppy Boot

[Asif Lodhi]

Hi,

I tried to install Ubuntu from the CD I received but the installation
works toooooooooooo slow on a 256MB RAM, 1.7GHz, 80GB Hard disk Intel
Celeron.  Can I speed it up somehow by doing the install using a
text-only command-line install?  Is there an easy way to do that?

Secondly, I have an otherwise perfectly working 40GB Baracuda with a
bad boot-sector.  Can you guys tell me how I can install Ubuntu on
this hard disk so that I can boot from a 1.44MB floppy and work with
the OS sitting on this hard disk?

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TIA,

Asif