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Hello, I have an old Toshiba Dynabook AX2525CM, with 256 mb of ram, 40gb hard disk and a Celeron/2.5GHz cpu. I tried installing Ubuntu 9.1, but somehow it's not working ...
  1. 12-27-2009 #1
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    Advice on which distro to install

    Hello,

    I have an old Toshiba Dynabook AX2525CM, with 256 mb of ram, 40gb hard disk and a Celeron/2.5GHz cpu. I tried installing Ubuntu 9.1, but somehow it's not working properly. I suppose it's a bit too heavy.
    I was wondering what debian/ubuntu based os coult I try.
    Thank you in advance for any advice.
    Cheers
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    I enjoy Debian Lenny on a system that is half as fast as yours.
    A little more ram wouldn't hurt though.
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    When you say it's not working properly what is (or isn't) happening?

    A couple of lighter Ubuntus are Xubuntu which has XFCE instead of gnome or the remarkably light Crunchbang which uses Openbox
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    Thank you for the suggestions.
    I just managed to install ubuntu, using the textual interface. The grafic one wasn't working.
    I now have a new problem. I would like to *** Japanese language support, but I don't have a direct connection (i.e. the computer with the newly installed cannot be connected, but I have a connection on another computer). Is it possible to fetch it from the dvd?
    Or, if I have to download the packages individually on the other computer (Windows xp on an usb modem), now do I make sure that I get all the dependent packages?
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