Public bug reported:
On computers at, below, or even a bit above the minimum spec for the
main installer CD (live CD) for feisty, getting as far as the live CD
desktop is horrendously slow. The solution is to use the alternate
install CD, but no-one knows this (you get an option to download the
alternate CD but don't get told *why* you might want to). Can the main
CD either check specs on bootup or time how long it's taking to boot and
then, if that time is over a certain threshold value, put up a message
saying "this machine is probably too slow to use this live CD installer,
although it will be fine to run Ubuntu: we recommend that you download
and install from the alternate CD, available from http://wherever/";.
For extra bonus points, on the download page, attempt to time the
computer that's about to do the download with a bit of JavaScript and if
it looks like it's going to be too slow, say "If you're going to be
using this CD to install Ubuntu *on the computer that you are on now*,
then we'd recommend using the alternate CD because this machine might be
slow using the ordinary CD." This obviously isn't a perfect test but it
should help at least some people not download the wrong CD first time!
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Live CD should recommend alternate CD on slow computers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121517
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