Comment 8 for bug 659253

I neglected to mention I had also tried the mini 12.04 install which was supposed to be non PAE and text based but did not appear to be but it may have been my error in not formatting the usb drive - the first time I tried with the non pae version of Ubuntu desktop linked above I still got the pae error - after formatting the usb first then installing the pae error disappeared but I did have to use the procedure of typing help to get past the graphics error.