zRAM

[Aere Greenway]

On 06/08/2013 10:57 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Karl Anliot <kanliot at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kanliot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I honestly think zram could help during the one-time graphical
>     installation of Lubuntu on 512MB pcs.  In fact, edubuntu included
>     zram in that distribution for that exact reason.  We could
>     eliminate crashing and the need to delete the slideshow to install.
>
>
>
> For the last two years testing Lubuntu on old hardware (256MB-512MB of 
> RAM), that maybe 1000 installations or more, I have never ever faced 
> the so called slideshow crashing issue :)
>
> Please, let's keep the topic as it is :)
> -- 
> *Best Regards,*
> *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>*
> *Start Ubuntu 
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu>*
>
> /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with 
> 489MB RAM/
>
>
>
On multiple installations, I have encountered the problem on 512 Meg RAM 
machines where it crashes at a certain point during the slide-show.

In each case, using the package manager to remove the ubiquity slide 
show has allowed the graphical installation to go beyond that point, and 
succeed.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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