[Wolves] ubuntu live cd success rate?

[David Goodwin]

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Andy Wootton wrote:
| Am I very unlucky in my choice of hardware?
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| I've booted the Ubuntu Live CD on 4 PCs with a 25% success rate.
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| It worked (horribly slowly) on a Northwood (Software Warehouse) Pentium
| with only 48MB but said I had to create a swap file on a DOS partition.
| It looks good.

Likewise, my mother's pc has 64mb of ram. It was painfully slow (after
5-10 minutes i had a desktop, at which point i turned it off)

| It failed to boot on an old Tosh Tecra, a second-hand gamers self-build
| with an ex-bleeding-edge motherboard and a PC World own-brand machine
| with bog-standard components. They have all run Red Hat Linux or Fedora
| Core 1 succesfully. Two machines blacked out the monitor and one stopped
| with the moving progress bar almost at the end. I've had similar
| experiences the couple of times I've tried to install Debian before but
| I assumed I was just using the wrong spells!
|

My mother's laptop booted up, but X didn't get something right as the
screen was just black. Pressing alt+ctrl+f2 showed that Linux was
running ok, but that was about it.


| I'd be a bit worried about giving these out at InfoPoints if I'm a
| representative sample. A Win user is probably going to try Linux on an
| obsolete PC first.

At work, I found that Knoppix 3.2 (?) is better than the later release
(3.4). 3.4 wouldn't boot on one troublesome computer (dumped you to a
useless prompt where you have access to about 6 commands) while 3.2
booted fine. Seems like a regression to me.

David.
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