bad video mode booting from 7.10 cd

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2008 09:19 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>> > It's a CRT, quite old. I never got more than 800x600 or 1027x768
>> from
>> > it.
>> > 
>> > does this help ?
> 
>> Partially - I need the _model_ number.Look on your monitor and tell us
>> what the model number is. That is the only way that I can find out the
>> Horizontal and Vertical frequencies & specs of the monitor - unless of
>> course you still have the manual for it :-).
> 
> SAMSUNG (not Samtron sorry), SyncMaster3
> 
>> 
>> Also please provide the amount of RAM the system has.
> 
> the computer has 256Megs RAM; the Video card I believe it's 4Megs.
> 
>> 
>> When you say booting from 7.10 CD; are you trying to boot using a
>> LiveCD? If so, it most likely won't work on your system. You'll need to
>> install from the Alternate CD.
> 
> Ok. So what is this "Alternate CD" people mention ?
> 
> thanks
> joao
> 
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> 
> 

Use 7.10 or 8.04 (alternate CD's only).

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Be sure to click the "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD.
This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based
installer." Just below the Start Download button.

Or:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/
Scroll down and download:
ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso

Hardy beta (which will be release in about 16 days) is here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
[read the page/notes]
  http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/
[Alternate install CD]j
Scroll down and download:
ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-i386.iso