Alternate CD iso for v4.07 Ubuntu corrupt

[ac]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> ac wrote:
>> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>>> ac wrote:
>>>> Tom Palaskas wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> My laptop is a P3 with only 256Mb RAM so it can't handle the install
>>>>> from the normal graphical CD. I downloaded the Alternate text-based CD
>>>>> iso (Ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso) and did ...
>>> Hi,
>>> I would strongly recommend to use the _x_ubuntu iso on such a machine.
>>>
>>> With 256MB Ram, you should probably be fine with the graphical install,
>>> However, the xubuntu alternate iso will install much quicker. Most
>>> important, imho Xubuntu will give your machine a new life.
>> 
>> yes, I found this also. However, I had he ubuntu cd, and I was patient 
>> with ubuntu slowness during install and subsequently just installed the
>> xubuntu-desktop package
>> from ubuntu repositiories.
> ok. So you arrived at the same target coming from a different starting
> point. ;-))
> 
> I am interested to know, how the original Gnome behaves with your
> machine AFTER installation? Is it useable from your point of view?
> 
> OK, I could install ubuntu-desktop and find out on my own, but I do not
> want to download what I do not need, except to find out, how Gnome....

Gnome:
On my PII 400Mhz 196MB ram, the time taken from password entry to full 
desktop is 31 seconds.
Firefox takes 8 seconds to come up. Open Office takes 48 seconds to start.
Although I use a P4 800MHz 1GB ram mostly, I would not find the 
slowness of this PII totally a nogo - it is kept as a machine which 
could be used seriously if I needed it.
The hard drive is old but not ancient - 120GB so it will be a 
reasonable speed I guess. Some ancient HDs can crawl.
hth
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ac