Comments on: Ubuntu 6.06 installation on Legacy PC (low RAM)

By: udara

udara — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:24 +0000

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:29:02 +0000

I installed Ubuntu 7.1 on a PIII 800 Mhz with 256M RAM. It is a laptop w/out CD, so I had to use a USB CD Drive. I tried the old fashioned way and after 5 hours, I was on step 3/7 and decided to search the forums. This post helped me tremendously, so I am just posting a useless-to-other-readers THANK YOU.
One possible improvement would be a link on how to use fdisk for beginners, and possibly also what the “swapon -s” results should look like. Imagine you dont understand what fdisk is, then this truly-helpful article becomes useless at step 4,5. Just find a good link, and reference it. Cause ubuntu is all about putting linux in everyones hands, and some havent taken fdisk-101 yet

By: Paramvir

Paramvir — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:19:03 +0000

Thanks a million bro, ur tutorial worked flawlessly … u saved me hours of frustration ….. thanks again!

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By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:25:46 +0000

Great! Thank you so much for this. It works for Kubuntu 7.10 live CD too!

By: mahi

mahi — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:14:31 +0000

i just cannot start ubuntu after some time i get dialog box with window manager then blank . how do i run ubuntu on my celeron 1.1 with 128 ram .help

By: periodic

periodic — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:35:23 +0000

Great work, swamytk!!!
Thank you!

By: samardeep

samardeep — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:43:43 +0000

hi
i tried to upgrade my dot-station ram 64mb to 128 rm but the system not started except one bip sound. help me to solve this problem and my external hard disk, card reader can not work on thi system. help me out

By: chi

chi — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:17:38 +0000

I did as you followed and when I return to the desktop and click on the install button. nothing happens. I dont see how to make the swap size a certain size (i.e. 256 or 512). I did not see any options for that when at the shell prompt.

I have a Maxtor hard drive and it was not listed, so I choose “0″ for drive type and chose the defaults (Just hitting enter key with no user inputs).

What am I doing wrong?

By: swamytk

swamytk — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:00:39 +0000

Hi Thomas Mariarty,

1. Sorry for the typo in the article. It should be “Ctrl+Alt+F1″. I have corrected.
2. Yes, Console is like DOS prompt, but much much powerful.