New wine, old wineskins
Thought I might have had a problem to bring along to tomorrow's work
but alas, I managed to find a workaround. Read on ...
Had a long day Saturday trying to get Ubuntu 12.04 on to an old
computer (or two). Live CD ran perfectly OK, but install seemed to
crash at the same spot each time.
The last machine I tried had an AMD 2000+ CPU, so after the failure
with the 32 bit live CD, downloaded and tried the AMD/64 bit version.
No go for that ... CPU was 32 bit - AMD wasn't relevant in this case!
Did a little bit of Googling and it looked like PAE (pyhsical address
extension) might be the problem. Recommended action was try Xubuntu
or Lubuntu.
Downloaded Xubuntu. Live CD ran up normally but install crashed,
apparently at the same spot.
Oh well, may have to live with an older version, so installed 11.10.
Live CD was fine, Install went fine. Reboot ... and YUCK ... 640x480
(or worse) screen display. Also promptly appearing was the screen
offering an upgrade to 12.04. Do I decide to chase the nVidia driver
problem or try the online upgrade? Chose the latter (can always
reinstall 11.10). Some windows were a bit of a problem ... had to use
Alt/F7 to move them around so I could see the buttons at the bottom of
the window.
I was reminded why I always do fresh installs when changing sytems.
It took at least two hours, and downloaded at least 700MB of files
from the Internet. And guess what...
Success! Video fine, 12.04 runs fine.
Total Internet usage for the day was over 3.5GB.
Would have been quicker for me to to pop down to PBTech, buy a "clean"
computer, and install U12.04!
Michael
