[ale] Ubuntu 6.10 install

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:33 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> I have been trying to install 5.10 on a laptop so I could upgrade to
> 6.10 and I am getting a failure at the step after the kernel loads.  I
> think that I may have too small a disk(5.1g).  However the problem
> with the other installs is that the 6.10 disk hangs before it gets the
> live setup started.  I have used this disk on 3 computers without
> success and 1 successfully. 
> 
> 
> I found the memory required to run 6.10 is 128 so that disqualifies
> one of the machines I tried to install on but I am stumped as to why
> the others won't work.
> 
> 
> I thought about downloading the iso again but I do have one working
> install from this disk.

What's the CPU specs for those computers?   BIOS versions?  

Note: I think that Ubuntu is more focused on newer hardware.

-Jim P.