Has anyone tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 on a non-pae machine lately? I
just downloaded ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-i386.iso and ran into two problems.
1. The dang thing is 766.5 MB. My stash of CD-Rs are 700 MB.
2. After wasting most of a DVD and trying to use it to install 12.04 on
my laptop I find that the kernel on the DVD is compiled for pae, and
won't run on my laptop.
I found a page telling me that the mini.iso would solve both of these
problems.
I happened to already have that burned to a cd, and I can get all the
way through the initial setup phase (the last entry was to tell it that
my HTTP proxy is none), but then I got the dreaded purple screen of
death. (Yes, that is meant to be a frustrated dig.)
The PhoenixBIOS says that it will boot from a CD-ROM/DVD Drive, Hard
Drive, or Floppy Devices. (This laptop is from somewhere around 2006, I
think.) So I don't have the option of installing from a memory stick.
After a bunch of searching I discovered that there is an install CD for
xubuntu alternate. I installed that, and it runs. But I want to have the
same desktop on all of my machines. So, I went looking for how to switch
from xubuntu to ubuntu and found an instruction that says to run:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
When I run that I get an error message:
"Unable to locate package ubuntu-gnome-desktop"
Then I figured I'd see if the ubuntu-12.04.4-alternate-i386.iso might
just happen to be small enough to fit on a CD. Alas, no.
So, does anyone have any ideas about how to switch from non-pae xubuntu
12.04 to ubuntu 12.04?
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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