johnodd4
February 19th, 2010, 11:36 AM
Well here is the ubuntu Experiance of installation and issues with ubuntu 9.10 on a think pad.
Current hardware spec's for thinkpad 390 E
Intel Celeron 335 mhz
256 Meg's of ram
80 gig hard drive
Installation: Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit.
1. burned installation image to cd-r media memorox cd-r
2. Began installation
3. installation refused to boot.
4. restarted installation Safe mode failed to install.
5. Restarted
6. Tried Different installation method used iso for machine's with less then 256 megs of ram.
7. booted successfully installed ubuntu running (sort of) (extremely slow)
Known Issue's of Installation.
1. All hardware detected correctly No issues with drivers.
2. Cannot run games (several titles including battle for wesnoth took nearly 40 minutes to load once loaded the games sound was jerky and unstable)
3. could run firefox openoffice and even gimp no issues (seems like this computer will be a office machine more then anything else)
Limitations:
1. cannot run all application's
2. long loading times due to the machines slow ATA controller.
3. graphic's set to 256 colors only.
4. cannot run any higher resolution then 1024x768
Final Recommendation.
Don't bother
All though it installed and does run the machine is so limited it really cannot handle pardon the pun jack.
this isn't ubuntu's fault this is the drive controllers fault after updating and trying a restart the machine failed to reboot into ubuntu because of the slow ATA drive controller.
This is the results from a thinkpad installation.
Current hardware spec's for thinkpad 390 E
Intel Celeron 335 mhz
256 Meg's of ram
80 gig hard drive
Installation: Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit.
1. burned installation image to cd-r media memorox cd-r
2. Began installation
3. installation refused to boot.
4. restarted installation Safe mode failed to install.
5. Restarted
6. Tried Different installation method used iso for machine's with less then 256 megs of ram.
7. booted successfully installed ubuntu running (sort of) (extremely slow)
Known Issue's of Installation.
1. All hardware detected correctly No issues with drivers.
2. Cannot run games (several titles including battle for wesnoth took nearly 40 minutes to load once loaded the games sound was jerky and unstable)
3. could run firefox openoffice and even gimp no issues (seems like this computer will be a office machine more then anything else)
Limitations:
1. cannot run all application's
2. long loading times due to the machines slow ATA controller.
3. graphic's set to 256 colors only.
4. cannot run any higher resolution then 1024x768
Final Recommendation.
Don't bother
All though it installed and does run the machine is so limited it really cannot handle pardon the pun jack.
this isn't ubuntu's fault this is the drive controllers fault after updating and trying a restart the machine failed to reboot into ubuntu because of the slow ATA drive controller.
This is the results from a thinkpad installation.