OT: ubuntu install problem

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> 
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:23:23AM -0700, Bill Campbell, the prominent
> pundit,
> witicized:
> >
> > Can you spell code bloat?
> 
> All too well.  I remember the days of 1MB kernel source tarballs
> (possibly
> smaller), and now they're 45MB+.  That's what happens when you roll
> everything under the sun into one distribution, including multi-vendor
> CPU
> support.
> 
> > The default desktop for SuSE at that time was KDE (it may still
> > be, but it's been a while since I used any Linux desktop other
> > than gnome when initially installing CentOS systems).
> 
> One should be able to install with -no- GUI desktop.  Don't tell me
> SuSE
> isn't that bright, given the robustness of curses-based YaST...?
> 
> > I think that's called the Blue Quartz project or something
> > similar.  The Cobalt boxes don't run with a GUI user interface
> > with the huge RAM requirements of a desktop manager.
> 
> TinyX and twm are pretty light on their feet.  The only problem with
> that
> is that some applications -require- GTK+, for instance.  But they're
> not
> apps that I'd probably run on that small a system.
> 
> > Could it be attempting to squash an existing Windows partition?
> > That could easily take a lot of resources.
> 
> Still doesn't make sense to me.  It's not dealing with the fs, it's
> dealing
> with the (very small) partition table, no matter what's on existing
> partitions.  You can leave that data just sitting there and fdisk it
> and
> *poof*.  Or you -should- be able to.
> 
> mark->

OK,

Did some checking on the web and found that older versions of most
variations of Linux have been installed on the T23.

I downloaded firmware updates as I don't recall if I did these when I was
given this machine last year.

I'll have to check these and if necessary update the bios and disk firmware.
There is a boot CD iso I download to check and update the hard drive
firmware.

Once this is done, I'll try again.

Mark, thanks again for the suggestion.

One other thing they suggested, and I will do it again, run the disk check
of the CD prior to doing the install.  One site even suggested burning the
iso at 4X speed.

Richard