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bholeatul
May 18th, 2008, 03:07 PM
Hi,

I am trying to install XUBUNTU 8.04 on my quite old PC.
AMD Athlon 1100 Mhz, VIA KM133 chipset and 256 MB SDRAM.
Whenever I try to install, midway in installation monitor turns off. I am not able to figureout why ? Can any one address this issue?
overdrank
May 18th, 2008, 03:32 PM
Hi,

I am trying to install XUBUNTU 8.04 on my quite old PC.
AMD Athlon 1100 Mhz, VIA KM133 chipset and 256 MB SDRAM.
Whenever I try to install, midway in installation monitor turns off. I am not able to figureout why ? Can any one address this issue?

HI and welcome, what is the model of the graphics card? There is a screen saver if you are installing from the option "try Ubuntu without changes to your system" or something to that effect. You may try just from the option install Ubuntu. The memory of 256mb is quite low.
bholeatul
May 18th, 2008, 07:57 PM
well.. there is no graphics card installed... i chose XUBUNTU coz i thought it would work well on low end machines such as mine... also i am trying to install it from win2k professional.. current res is 1028*768.
bholeatul
May 18th, 2008, 07:59 PM
i tried both...direct installation and without making changes to the system... but got no luck,,
overdrank
May 18th, 2008, 08:08 PM
i tried both...direct installation and without making changes to the system... but got no luck,,

Hi and you may try the alternate cd here
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
check the box for alternate cd it is a text based installation.