Adrian Chadd wrote:
Why are you downloading the desktop image? Why not install the
server image?
I guess to explain what Adrian meant is that the server version of
Ubuntu uses a text installer. You can still do this with the desktop ISO
by typing "server" when booting from the CD. I could think if a hundred
reasons why Ubuntu would fail on old machines if you were using the
normal installer. My suggestion is to use the text installer and go from
there. Ubuntu isn't really that different from Debian IMHO.
Hope that helps.
Carlo
adrian
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
I want to setup a server so remote users (ie brother in-law) can access
a box with Aussie IP address.
Currently foreign IPs can not assess eBay Australia he sells lots of
stuff through eBay.
So, I downloaded the 7.04 Ubuntu desktop image and burnt it to a CD.
Then I tried to install it on an old Compaq box but I don't have spare
mouse to use the desktop stuff.
Tried three old ones but no success.
After 30 mins of stuffing around I could not do anything without a mouse
so I decided
to download the 32M cd image of Debian and configured the box in 2 mins.
The download
of all the software will still take another 2 hours.
But I found in much easier to manually configure the box than use the
automatic stuff.
How many other people prefer the text setup rather than graphical system??
Am I dumb or what??
regards,
Richard Hayes
0414 618 425
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