Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu on a AMD K6-2 550MHz

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Author: Richard Setford
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu on a AMD K6-2 550MHz
Thanks Tim, downloading as I type.



Tim wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:33:29 Richard Setford wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having an issue getting the live Ubuntu 7.10 cd to run on a AMD K6-2 box
>> with 312mb ram. Is this spec a little too low for Ubuntu?
>>
>> It'll get past the splash screen, there's floppy disk drive activity (no
>> floppy present though) and then I just get a blank screen with a rapidly
>> flashing cursor.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
> I would of thought that xubuntu* would of been better suited to a PC with that
> spec
>
>
> * http://www.xubuntu.org/
>
> Tim
>
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