Hi,

I had given to me a couple of old acer altos servers (910) and have been
trying to install xubuntu on one. now these only have 64mb ram (i know,
i know) Im ordering some more simms after waiting for the guy who gave
them to me to search his basement only to find no more ram laying
around. using the alternate cd of 8.10, get through the install to the
point where "select and install software", took maybe 1/2 hour to get to
that point. I left it run overnight, and its still on "configuring
language-pack-en-base" the hd light is still blinking, and old scsi
drive is still chattering away, but its been like 12 hours!?!?

you think it should be taking THIS long?

any tips on what I should do differently maybe?

thanks.




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On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:17:23 -0500
steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had given to me a couple of old acer altos servers (910) and have
> been trying to install xubuntu on one. now these only have 64mb ram
> (i know, i know) Im ordering some more simms after waiting for the
> guy who gave them to me to search his basement only to find no more
> ram laying around. using the alternate cd of 8.10, get through the
> install to the point where "select and install software", took maybe
> 1/2 hour to get to that point. I left it run overnight, and its
> still on "configuring language-pack-en-base" the hd light is still
> blinking, and old scsi drive is still chattering away, but its been
> like 12 hours!?!?
>
> you think it should be taking THIS long?
>
> any tips on what I should do differently maybe?
>
> thanks.
>

Seems like that might be too long. I usually wait about 4-6 hours
before calling it "not working".

I did an install with 128MB ram, that was only about 4-1/2 hours.

good luck,

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On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:31:32 -0700
Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:17:23 -0500
> steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had given to me a couple of old acer altos servers (910) and have
> > been trying to install xubuntu on one. now these only have 64mb ram
> > (i know, i know) Im ordering some more simms after waiting for the
> > guy who gave them to me to search his basement only to find no more
> > ram laying around. using the alternate cd of 8.10, get through the
> > install to the point where "select and install software", took maybe
> > 1/2 hour to get to that point. I left it run overnight, and its
> > still on "configuring language-pack-en-base" the hd light is still
> > blinking, and old scsi drive is still chattering away, but its been
> > like 12 hours!?!?
> >
> > you think it should be taking THIS long?
> >
> > any tips on what I should do differently maybe?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
>
> Seems like that might be too long. I usually wait about 4-6 hours
> before calling it "not working".
>
> I did an install with 128MB ram, that was only about 4-1/2 hours.
>
Yes, it does take a long time for really old machines, hit ctrl-alt-F8 to observe what the install is doing.
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