Installing Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2009 04:46 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Tue, April 28, 2009 11:10, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, April 28, 2009 01:00, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Your TOO poor to be owning a computer. Sell it and give up on Ubuntu.
>>>>
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>>> Come on Karl. Now you are just trolling.
>>> You are better than that.
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>> This fellow has had a real problem loading Ubuntu on an old dumpster
>> computer. It is hard to guess what the problem might be. I think it might
>> be the small RAM causing most of the problem.
>>
>> But the main problem seems to be that it is hard to find RAM in a
>> dumpster. And to buy RAM is not even considered.
> 
> I have an old laptop, Celeron 300 I think, with 192 MB RAM.
> Wanna bet that I can install Ubuntu on it?
> Not with a Gnome desktop + compiz of course, but ion of fluxbox should work.
> 
> 
> 

Lapnote 350Mhz/128Mb laptop - works w/8.04 - slow as molassas, but works
:-) Works much better using xcfe:

 *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 0
          size: 128MiB
     *-cpu
          product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu at 0
          version: 5.8.0
          size: 350MHz
 *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: ViRGE/MX+MV
             vendor: S3 Inc.