Installation problem on old machine [was: no subject]

Tue Jul 20 10:26:27 UTC 2010

Mahesh IPM wrote:
> Recently tried diffrent ways of installing UBUNTU on my laptop old
> IBM which has Windows XP.
> Its installed start but then doesnt progress. gets stuck.
> Is it an IBM laptop problem by any chance.

Old XP machine could mean that you don't have enough memory. I remember 
similar sysmptoms from a low memory machine when I tried to install from 
the LiveCD. According to [1] you need at least 256MB. If your machine 
doesn't have that amount of memory you could try the alternate CD 
instead or use another Ubuntu flavour like Xubuntu.

Nils

[1] <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes>