not enough ram to run live CD.

If you want to install Ubuntu just use Alternate CD.If you want to make a new partition (or so) try to use GParted LiveCD - http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ (it doesn't need so much RAM).

Hello Shithja...
according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
If your system has less than 192 MB of system memory, use the Alternate Installation CD.
because the minimum recommended system requirements for Installation of ubuntu are:

500 MHz x86 processor

192 MB of system memory (RAM)

8 GB of disk space

Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution

Sound card

A network or Internet connection

now in your case the system memory is low.. For this...

Possible fixes:
1.Downloading the alternate CD and installing..
http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/gutsy/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso
I doubt if this works out since your system is low on ram..

2.There are a couple things that work sometimes with older hardware.

First thing I would check is the Bios setting for the Intel graphics video controller. There is usually a place for shared video memory which might be like 1024 K or 1 MB. Set this as high as it will go, usually 4096 K or 4 MB. That has gotten my old computer running ubuntu for me..

Another thing to try when the boot choices come up, push F6 and add these to the end of the line so it will look like:

....quiet splash noapic acpi=off irqpoll

which can work CD Live. Sometimes just one of the three last settings is needed. If by chance you decide to do an install, and it does, then those options can be added to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (where l is lower case L)

3. The best solution is:
Since your system is old,try out xubuntu and then after installing xubuntu you can install ubuntu updates perfect for low end systems... xubuntu system requirements are:
To run the Desktop CD (LiveCD + Install CD), you need 128 MB RAM to run or 192 MB RAM to install. The Alternate Install CD only required you to have 64 MB RAM.

To install Xubuntu, you need 1.5 GB of free space on your hard disk.

Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 64 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to use at least 128 MB RAM
(Xubuntu is a light flavour of ubuntu,which comees with xfce desktop perfect for low end systems...)

Xubuntu can be downloaded from:
http://www.xubuntu.org/get

Secondly if you want to make new partitions, use the Gparted live CD as vojtech told above,

Have Fun

Bhavani Shankar.

As Bhavani says, I also recommend you try Xubuntu. Either that or upgrade your RAM.

Until recently I was running Ubuntu on a 1GHz Athlon with 1 GB of RAM, and it ran fine.

Let us know how you get on.

David