[Sussex] Help with getting started please

[Malcolm Harris]

Dear Fay and Harry,

Thanks for responding.

I'm at work at the moment so can't check the ancient PC but I believe it has
a 2.8 mhz Celeron processor and 256 mb of RAM.

I think the Distro disk was from Issue 88 of Linux User and Developer.

As I recall from a frustrating afternoon last weekend, the cover Distro disk
launched in Firefox, asked me to copy a link onto the (WIndows XP) desktop.
I then was required to find an ISO burner to produce an operable download of
the desktop Distro (I don't understand why the Distros on the disk aren't
bootable). The ISO burner I downloaded wouldn't run so I gave up on that. I
then tried a download from the Ubuntu site but it was coming in at 17gb (I
thought the desktop Distro was around 3 gb?!) and projected to take two days
to download. It also told me that I had slightly less (something like
248mb)than the minimum 256mb required  so I gave up on that as well.

A graphical install sounds more like my kind of interface - can you you
recommend a publication like to have such a disk?

Best wishes,

Westerham



On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Westerham,
>
> Welcome to the Sussex LUG.
>
> On 7 July 2010 22:06, Malcolm Harris <westerham91 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Dear SLUGs,
> > I'm thinking about using Ubuntu but am having problems setting up the
> > software to evaluate it.
> > I'm trying to look at a desktop Distro circulated by 'Linux User'.
>
> Is the disk from the July issue of Linux User and Developer with Ubuntu
> 10.04 and Fedora 13 on it?
>
> From what you say below it looks like it offers a live Ubuntu with an
> installation option.
>
> > I've
> > tried on an ancient PC but it could not cope. I've tried booting an early
> > Intel Macbook with the disk in to access a live disk but to no avail (I'm
> > reluctant to try a partitioned installation on the Macbook as I've read a
> > number of accounts on the web of people who have done this and then being
> > unable to later remove the Distro or the partition.
> > Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Please bear in mind that
> I'm
> > not a coder - I thought using Ubuntu involved a lot of technical knowhow
> and
> > programming but a colleague at work has recently installed it and keeps
> > raving on about how fast and easy to use it is, hence my curiosity.
> > Westerham
>
> Tell us what spec your "ancient PC" is. What processor power and what
> memory.
>
> Ubuntu is an easy graphical install.
>
> Did it install properly but not run?
>
> Ubuntu gives a choice of desktop managers to match resources. Xfce is
> lightweight.
>
> For example on my PIII 700Mhz 256MB laptop I installed Xubuntu to HDD and
> run OpenOffice Writer in it.
>
> Google will tell you more.
>
> If you can make it to the next Sussex moot (Thursday 29th July in Horsham)
> you will see a range of distros - and, especially if last month is anything
> to go by - a very wide range of machines :-)
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Fay
> East Grinstead Linux User Group
> www.eglug.org.uk
>
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