graphical installer not aware of Low-RAM computers

Hung Tran nguyentieuhau at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 03:09:02 UTC 2012


On 04/10/2012 09:35 AM, karl anliot wrote:
> Is there any way to check the amount of RAM the user has, before we let them try to launch the ubiquity installer?
> Lubuntu is perfectly usable on PC's with 256M-384M of RAM, but on this PC, ubiquity has serious problems running from the LiveCD.
> I know we've documented this, and we haven't needed it for previous releases, still.
> We can't expect the user to know that he needs the minimal CD.  People are going to share Lubuntu, and they aren't going to read the documentation first.
Hi all,

I agree with Karl. We could do something like including a short 
installation guide in HTML format, then open it with Chromium everytime 
people run Lubuntu in LiveCD so that they can read and then install in 
the right way. Just my idea.

Regards,
Hung Tran



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