Comment 9 for bug 254453

Forest Bond wrote: "Of course, you can install Ubuntu Server edition and then use a -386 or -generic kernel, and that would work just fine. Perhaps there is an installation option to do that?".

I installed both the desktop and server editions of 8.04 just by accepting the defaults (except for doing manual disk partitioning). In other words, I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work. I don't recall seeing any questions about what kernel version to use.