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On Sunday 09 September 2007 23:54, Simon Williams wrote: > Hi everyone. > Since Arch Linux isn't really suited to someone new to Linux my dad has > downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (7.04). About 3 hours ago he > booted the CD. After quite a long time (30mins to an hour) it had > finished loading gnome. Knoppix doesn't take more than a couple of > minutes at most, so what was Ubuntu doing to take that long to boot? > Right near the end there was one error about not being able to find a > gnome panel applet, but I don't think it was a problem. > > Anyway, we clicked the install icon on the desktop, and it's been > chugging away on the hdd and cd drive for 2 hours or more now and still > hasn't finished. The screen blanked out for powersave, but I can't get > it back now. The install is still going though. > > WHAT IN THE WORLD IS IT DOING!?!?!?! > > It's a fairly old laptop- less than 1Ghz I think, and the CD drive > probably isn't too fast, but none the less- it shouldn't take anything > like this long. > > Also, is it ever going to ask me questions about where to install it or > anything? If not, where is it installing itself? > > Thanks > Simon Low ram issue. The best fix - apart from more ram - is the alternative cd, which is far more effective on low spec machines. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html