xubuntu on acer altos

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:17:23 -0500
steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had given to me a couple of old acer altos servers (910) and have
> been trying to install xubuntu on one.  now these only have 64mb ram
> (i know, i know) Im ordering some more simms after waiting for the
> guy who gave them to me to search his basement only to find no more
> ram laying around. using the alternate cd of 8.10, get through the
> install to the point where "select and install software", took maybe
> 1/2 hour to get to that point.  I left it run overnight, and its
> still on "configuring language-pack-en-base"  the hd light is still
> blinking, and old scsi drive is still chattering away, but its been
> like 12 hours!?!?
> 
> you think it should be taking THIS long?
> 
> any tips on what I should do differently maybe?
> 
> thanks.
> 

Seems like that might be too long. I usually wait about 4-6 hours
before calling it "not working".

I did an install with 128MB ram, that was only about 4-1/2 hours.

good luck,

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