I have an eight year old desktop. Now the configuration of the system is Pentium-4 2GHz processor; 1GB DDR-1 RAM and 40 GB HDD with only a CD RW drive (no DVD), a floppy drive (which is useless now) and a few USB sockets. I have been using it with dual boot of Win-XP and Kubuntu version 9.04 for a long time.
After a recent repair of the hardware two months ago (and RAM increased to 1 GB from 256 MB which was there earlier), I formatted the disc and re-installed everything in the same way it was earlier: Windows in about 34 GB and Kubuntu with about total 5.5 GB of which, 750 MB or so is SWAP space. After this, I found Dragon player and Amarok player not working at all and giving messages saying that some packages need to be installed for the p[layer to work whenever I press any media file. Then, I decided to upgrade Kubuntu and pressed the relevant buttons in the pop-up messages. It first upgraded to 9.10 and then to 10.04 version of Kubuntu. But after this, every activity in Kubuntu seems to have considerably slowed down! For example, during start-up, when I press enter after giving the password, it takes about 90 seconds for the desktop display and a total of about 4 minutes till the music indicating the completion of start-up. If I click on any document, power point or anything like that it takes nearly a minute for the thing to open. If I click on a movie, it takes nearly 90 seconds for it to start. I did not work in 9.10 version at all so I do not know if there was any problem there!
I tried posing the query in the forum and got so many suggestions which thoroughly confused me. I am not a technical person and find it difficult to understand some of the explanations in the publications of Kubuntu too.
Based on the replies that I received from everyone, I thought it best to format the partition and re-install Kubuntu 10.04 (or maybe, 10.10) afresh. So, I went into the site http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download and downloaded the ISO image Desktop CD, 32 Bit using bit torrent. Thereafter, burnt it into a CD.
While trying to boot through this CD, I am facing a new problem. That is, after the system boots through the CD, in the choices that appear, There is no choice of INSTALL KUBUNTU. It shows that it is Kubuntu 10.10 and gave a total of 4 choices like disk check, memory check and .... I don't remember the other two. There were also choices of F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and such buttons below. I tried putting back the old CD of 9.04 version and it is very clear -- giving the choice of Install Kubuntu too. I feel that there is something wrong with this CD
??
Can someone tell me what I can do now?
After a recent repair of the hardware two months ago (and RAM increased to 1 GB from 256 MB which was there earlier), I formatted the disc and re-installed everything in the same way it was earlier: Windows in about 34 GB and Kubuntu with about total 5.5 GB of which, 750 MB or so is SWAP space. After this, I found Dragon player and Amarok player not working at all and giving messages saying that some packages need to be installed for the p[layer to work whenever I press any media file. Then, I decided to upgrade Kubuntu and pressed the relevant buttons in the pop-up messages. It first upgraded to 9.10 and then to 10.04 version of Kubuntu. But after this, every activity in Kubuntu seems to have considerably slowed down! For example, during start-up, when I press enter after giving the password, it takes about 90 seconds for the desktop display and a total of about 4 minutes till the music indicating the completion of start-up. If I click on any document, power point or anything like that it takes nearly a minute for the thing to open. If I click on a movie, it takes nearly 90 seconds for it to start. I did not work in 9.10 version at all so I do not know if there was any problem there!
I tried posing the query in the forum and got so many suggestions which thoroughly confused me. I am not a technical person and find it difficult to understand some of the explanations in the publications of Kubuntu too.
Based on the replies that I received from everyone, I thought it best to format the partition and re-install Kubuntu 10.04 (or maybe, 10.10) afresh. So, I went into the site http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download and downloaded the ISO image Desktop CD, 32 Bit using bit torrent. Thereafter, burnt it into a CD.
While trying to boot through this CD, I am facing a new problem. That is, after the system boots through the CD, in the choices that appear, There is no choice of INSTALL KUBUNTU. It shows that it is Kubuntu 10.10 and gave a total of 4 choices like disk check, memory check and .... I don't remember the other two. There were also choices of F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and such buttons below. I tried putting back the old CD of 9.04 version and it is very clear -- giving the choice of Install Kubuntu too. I feel that there is something wrong with this CD
??Can someone tell me what I can do now?
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