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[Tom <question77610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77610 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77610

Tom proposed the following answer:
Yes when the machine is cooler things do tend to work more smoothly.
I've taken the side off my machine permanently to stop areas from
building up warm pockets of air but that has the disadvantage of
negating a lot of the clever airflow through my case.  It has worked
well in my favour but might not be so great for you.  If you are getting
a thermometer warning indicator then it might be worth investing in a
new fan or two, or acquire some out of old machines or perhaps just re-
arrange the ones you have.  Do you know the current layout of your fans
and other cooling inside your case?  Laptop/netbook or desktop machine?
Perhaps i could offer some advice about cooling?

If LiveCd sessions are working then full installs should too.  If
anything LiveCds are normally slower and a little more awkward than a
hard-drive install.  Very good to use as a demo to test out a machine
and see how to get Ubuntu to work.

If you are using these Boot Options on a LiveCd sesion have you figured out how to edit them in to menu.lst to influence a hard-drive boot up in the same way? or are you using boot options in hard-drive installs already?  Here's a belated guide on boot options in case there's any you might have missed that might help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

900MHz and 512Mb ram sound just above min.specs so Ubuntu should be
working fine.  20Gb hard-drive space is great :))  If you get to a
command-line and type in

sudo fdisk -l

note that "-l" is a lower-case "-L" and copy the output into here that
might show if we can tweak the layouts of your partitions but i have a
feeling that you both have that pretty well sorted out already.

Thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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