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How to install OLDER Ubuntu and remove NEWER one? (ACPI problem/not online/not dual boot)

Asked by GianAndrea

Hi again!

I have an old computer -- 800mHZ Pentium III, 384 mb RAM, about 9 gigs hard drive. I want to learn Linux and eventually LAMP servers. I wiped clean the hard drive and installed Ubuntu Server 7.04.

That was a bad idea because 1) I may not be able to go online for a while before I can save up to get a router and an ethernet card, 2) the BIOS is pre-2000 and gives ACPI problems (as I am not online I am unable to use the BIOS company's auto-updater) and 3) as I am not online, I cannot install a GUI (I don't know how to install the Xubuntu GUI from the CD-Rom).

My questions are simple, I think, and all related:
       -- How do I uninstall Ubuntu Server 7.04? (Mine is not a dual-boot computer and I don't have the Windows 98 CD-Rom.)
       -- If I install Ubuntu Server 6.06, will that take care of the ACPI problem (if not, which version will?), and will it automatically remove the 7.04's partitions?
       -- How do I tell Ubuntu Server to load Xubuntu's GUI from the CD-Rom? (as opposed to from the internet?)
       -- Am I better off installing Xubuntu 6.06.1's GUI, or the 7.04's GUI (over Ubuntu Server 6.06)?
       -- Am I better off installing Xubuntu, and later, only when I am online, install Apache, MySQL and php... or am I better off installing Ubuntu Server 6.06 and then loading the Xubuntu GUI from the CD-Rom? ...And when, at a later date, I am online, specify/change the server information?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME! If possible, please answer as many as my questions as you can, so that I have no doubts as to what to do and how to do it.

T H A N K Y O U !!! G R A Z I E !!!

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#1

Hello,

Not sure if I can answer all your questions, but:

- to fix ACPI problems, try to pass noacpi option to the kernel while booting it (in the GRUB menu, select the OS you are going to boot, press e to edit the command to boot, and add noacpi at the end of parameters passed to the Linux kernel

- you don't need to uninstall Ubuntu in any special way; next time you install Ubuntu on this machine, just delete all disk partitions that belonged to the previous installation and create new partitions, or just select "Use entire disk" option in the installer if you have no other operating systems on this drive

- I would install Xubuntu, and then install Apache etc. I believe that several server packages you listed are on the Xubuntu CD, so you will not have to download them from the Net

Good luck!

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