In fact, last week, our organization involed into the fighting on dry weather. Hot and dry wheather has lasted almost 2 mouths. Many plant is going to die. We have being watered to all these our channel area a week. Irrigation apartment was responsible for it.
I am in project apartment, so there was many time to try ubuntu installing.
After about 10 hours, downloaded and installed it. I encounter a problem that the screen resolution can't be set to 1024*768 under text mode. I searched the reason at internet, finded maybe it was a FRAME BUFFER problem. After that, I verified this when installing ZHCON through command "apt-get install zhcon", it said like this: zhcon need frame buffer support, you can't use it. So, I was sure it was a FRAME BUFFER support missing error.
I install 2.6.15 kernel source and some compiling tools and compiled it, it spend me almost 7 hours again, sigh, a poor AMD K6-2 450 machine.
The most mess thing was after doing that, the new kernel can't support frame buffer yet, and plus a new problem-missing devfs file system.
I have worned out, next week, I will try some other methods, if it can't work yet, maybe I will discard resolving this problem. Or, try to install another distribution version, like: Debian, Redhat, etc..
I found Redhat linux9.0 only occupy memory 28M under my text console with 2.4.20 kernel in my duron 700 machine (stop some useless services), but, a ubuntu occupy about 60M memory under my text console with the compiled 2.6.15 kernel in my amd 450 machine (also stop some useless services). If the Debian can't fit my require after I trying it next week, I can choose Redhat cdrom.