CD Not recognized by older pc

[debian]

Jose Manuel Gaspar Martins wrote:
> Paul Ayers wrote:
> >/ I have a 333 HP pc that is not recognizing the CD is there anything I 
> />/ may do to remedy this?
> />/
> />/ Thank You
> //
>
> /I'm having a problem running ubuntu from live cd
> ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso
> (checked md5)
> on a hp omnibook xe3 with windows 2000 sp4:
> screen gets blank after initial processing/ loading/ instaling, 
>
> looks normal to me until it gets blank.
>
> my guess is that the pc doesn't have enough ram: only 130 KB available...
>
> is there an ubuntu version less demanding in terms of ram?
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> Jose Martins
> //
have you taken a look into xubuntu?

--cj