Installing Ubuntu in a very poor performace machine...

[Franz Waldmüller]

Hi arshad,

arshad schrieb:
> A friend of mine needs to have Ubuntu installed in his machine which has
> 10GB HDD, 128mb RAM, 32mb VGA, 800GHz processor.
Try to get more RAM (buy a used one)
> I tried installing hardy, jaunty and karmic but all got stuck in the
> middle for some reasons i don't know. I think its due to the low
> resources of the machine.
> Is it possible to install jaunty in his hdd by plugging it into my
> motherboard?
> 
> mine is a core to duo and all other specifications are different from
> him.
> 
> please give some advice.
> 
> thanks a lot.
> 
> 
these links point to to tables of the minimum specifications of several 
linux and ubuntu distributions. The site is in german it may give you 
hints where to look further.
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/alte_Hardware/sonstige_Distributionen#tabellarische-bersicht
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/alte_Hardware/Ubuntu#Tabellarische-bersicht

Franz