CD Not recognized by older pc

[Hugo Heden]

On 9/21/07, debian <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I have installed xubuntu on a 128MB RAM machine. Unfortunately, it is
swapping *a lot*, right after log-in.

So even though they state that the system requirements is 128MB RAM,
that does not work very well.

Hence, I guess there is not much hope for running a plain vanilla
Ubuntu of any kind with that little RAM. One could probably tweak
things though..?

I think there has been some discussion on some xubuntu-mailing-list
somewhere. Might be worth a search, for those who are interested.

Best Regards

Hugo Heden