RAM Requirements & Floppy Boot

[Waqas Toor]

Hi Asif,

On 11/6/06, Asif Lodhi <asif.lodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?


your system config is faster then mine so may be the celeron processor is
the issue to make it slow as i have intel original and it works fine ...
for text only check the start boot options

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?


dont have clue about that ... but a wild guess is may be you can install
grub on the floppy and then point the kernel flag to the place in your
harddisk sector
now i am all ears about this solution :)

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> Asif
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