With any distro I have tried, I have varied success and failures with boot and display on different machines. You will find the Ubuntu live too slow to be interesting on any machine.<br><br>(For live CD's I like SLAX and Austrumi
1.2, both based on slackware, and fast enough to be useful).<br><br>I have several of the distributed CD's if you want one. And several other distro's you could try. (anybody want to start a library somewhere)<br><br>If it came up on the older machine, I would probably rule out CD write issues.
<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Kline</b> <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div><font size="4">I downloaded the "live" and "install" versions of<br>
Ubuntu 5.10, and then "burned" the image on to an<br>
R/W CD using Nero.<br>
<br>
The live version comes up, but eventually gets<br>
in to trouble with the display. I get a rather confused<br>
looking display, and for all practical purposes the <br>
system is wedged. I ran the same CD on a much <br>
older machine. It came up fine, but was far too <br>
slow to be interesting.<br>
<br>
The install CD and a blank hard drive results in <br>
"Press a key to reboot." I press a key, and get back<br>
to the same message. As many times as I care to play.<br>
This also occurs on the older machine.<br>
<br>
I'm mostly interested in the install. Does anyone <br>
have any thoughts on what might be going on here? <br>
Just for kicks, I tried the "make bootable disc" option<br>
on Nero, but the result is the same. Is there anything<br>
more to making the CD than using the "burn image"<br>
option? Might there be any conceivable issue in <br>
using an R/W media? <br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
<br>
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