[rescue] Never thought I'd ask this

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Mon Oct 22 09:07:17 CDT 2007


Chad McAuley wrote:
> If you don't mind leaving all the stuff that comprises the
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu desktops installed, you could install one of
> those for the base system and then install whatever GUI environment
> you want.  Actually, you should also be able to do a Ubuntu server
> install to get the base system loaded and then install X and
> everything else you want from there.  You'd probably also want to
> install the standard linux-image-386 kernel; some quick googling shows
> that the kernel installed by Ubuntu server has been tweaked to make it
> more suitable to "server" workloads.

......Bah.  Can't do it.  The Ubuntu installer CD requires 320MB RAM.
This POS is maxed out at 192MB.  That looks to be just barely enough for
xubuntu though.


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