Saturday, March 24, 2012

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Newcomer: Phooey - no GUI: Installled ubunto 8.04 on a 256Meg P3 machine

 

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On 03/23/2012 12:54 PM, justin_e_bell2000 wrote:
> After a non-eventful install of 8.04 I boot up to a blank screen.
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> Machine
> No-name
> P3 processor
> 256 megs ram
> 15 gig c drive
> 15 gig d drive
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> History.
> I installed Ubuntu 7 successfully - but found it difficult to upgrade. Version 7 is no longer supported- so I decided to bypass the problems and install version 8. Normal install requires 384 megs of ram.
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> Because of my 256 meg limitation - I used the alternate version CD install - which will work with the smaller memory. All seemed to go well - but after rebooting - I just get a blank screen - the mouse and keyboard are unresponsive.
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> Any ideas?
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