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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu on an old Gateway 450

 

If it's an older machine might also be better to use Xubuntu as this
runs much better on older machines

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:28 +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:38:28PM +0100, Tom Brough wrote:
> > Henry Bremridge wrote:
> > 
>  >
> > was this a Ubuntu or Ubuntu (Alternative). I have had to build machines 
> > with the alternative disk (even though they had the minimum memory 
> > requirements)  before because of resource problems, although to be fair 
> > I got past basic kernel loading etc.
> > 
> Basic ubuntu. will try alternative although with 256K RAM it should have
> worked...
> 
> > Also (I know this may sound patronising) but you are not trying a 64bit 
> > version disk on a 32bit machine by any chance ?
> > 
> Nope, (at least not this time!)
> 
> Thanks for the advice: will try the alternative version and see what
> happens
> 
> 
> --
> Henry
> Sun Oct  8 16:28:44 BST 2006


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