I wanted to install Kubuntu 7.04 on an ancient Compaq Presario 700, but had to give up. Right now it has a Knoppix variant, ExTiX 5.0.
The problem was that the graphical installer wouldn't work, and the text-mode installer...well, it installed a text-only version of Kubuntu. Which isn't what I was going for at all.
The graphical installer ran so slowly that I exhausted my patience long before I got even a few steps into installing. I got as far as the screen where you select your time zone before I gave up. It took several minutes after clicking on the drop-down menu for the menu to actually drop down. The same happened when I tried to scroll to the city nearest mine. It was utterly unusable.
Anyone managed to successfully put Kubuntu 7.04 on this machine, or one like it? It has so little RAM (128 MB) and such a slow CPU (AMD Duron) that it is painfully slow as a Windows XP machine. Eventually, I'd like to set it up as my "using free WiFi at the coffee shop" machine, perhaps through a USB wireless adapter, since the internal PCMCIA slot is gone (accidentally sheared off the connector in a very unfortunate event).
It could have something to do with the DVD-ROM drive, which barely works. Besides Win XP running with painful sloth, another reason I stopped using the Presario was that the DVD-ROM drive wouldn't read anything most of the time. It's sheer luck that it read the Kubuntu Live DVD at all. I can live without an optical drive once I get it configured, but it's kind of hard to install an OS without a drive with which to install it! Then again, I had no problems installing ExTiX from the same drive. Go figure.
The problem was that the graphical installer wouldn't work, and the text-mode installer...well, it installed a text-only version of Kubuntu. Which isn't what I was going for at all.
The graphical installer ran so slowly that I exhausted my patience long before I got even a few steps into installing. I got as far as the screen where you select your time zone before I gave up. It took several minutes after clicking on the drop-down menu for the menu to actually drop down. The same happened when I tried to scroll to the city nearest mine. It was utterly unusable.
Anyone managed to successfully put Kubuntu 7.04 on this machine, or one like it? It has so little RAM (128 MB) and such a slow CPU (AMD Duron) that it is painfully slow as a Windows XP machine. Eventually, I'd like to set it up as my "using free WiFi at the coffee shop" machine, perhaps through a USB wireless adapter, since the internal PCMCIA slot is gone (accidentally sheared off the connector in a very unfortunate event).
It could have something to do with the DVD-ROM drive, which barely works. Besides Win XP running with painful sloth, another reason I stopped using the Presario was that the DVD-ROM drive wouldn't read anything most of the time. It's sheer luck that it read the Kubuntu Live DVD at all. I can live without an optical drive once I get it configured, but it's kind of hard to install an OS without a drive with which to install it! Then again, I had no problems installing ExTiX from the same drive. Go figure.
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