lszanto Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I have an old computer with windows xp/windows nt and when I put in the disc to install either ubuntu or kubuntu it doesn't boot from the disc, I think this is cause some of the windows nt settings are interfering with the actual system but does anybody have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fert Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 You need to enter the boot menu and select you cd-rom drive to boot from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 On some motherboards you can press a key (F12 for me) when booting to enter a menu in which you can choose from what medium to boot. If that isn't enabled or available you will have to enter the BIOS to make your cd/dvd drive has a higher boot priority than your HDDs have. On my motherboard I press F2 to enter that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamLiu Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 If your computer is really old, you might not have enough ram to use the installer. Its best if you have either a server or alternate disk, that way you can change the boot options to allow ~123 mb ram (which is the minimum), and boot a text installer. then when you're done installing the text, use sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop zenity xfce4 to get a snappy desktop gui ready to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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