OT: ubuntu install problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 19, 2008, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>I realize this isn't the normal place to ask, but since most of you are
>involved in *nix, I thought I would start here.
>
>I downloaded ubuntu and created in install disk.  The disk checks out fine.
>
>
>I have been trying to install this on a Thinkpad T23 which currently had Win
>XP Pro., 256Mb RAM and a 30GB hard drive with 20GB free.

I don't know about Ubuntu, but 256MB RAM on a Thinkpad is pretty dicey for
many current versions of Linux.  I ran Linux on my Thinkpad 600 for years
with 256MB RAM (about 224 after the TP took some for itself).  In the seven
years I used that machine I ran everything Caldera from OpenLinux 1.3
through whatever was current in 2001 when we switched to SuSE, then all the
SuSE Pro versions through 9.2.  It would not run any SuSE distribution
later than 9.2 (10.x would load, but not address PCMCIA CardBus cards).

If you can do an install specifying vnc, you might be able to monitor it
from another machine.  I have done SuSE autoyast installs with vnc mostly
so it wasn't necessary to babysit the machine back in the shop.  The CentOS
kickstart configuration allows vnc, but I have not tried it.  I suspect
that only the scripted automatic installations allow this.

Bill
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