RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu (was: zRAM)

Aere Greenway Aere at Dvorak-Keyboards.com
Mon Jun 10 02:35:52 UTC 2013


On 06/09/2013 02:00 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> On 2013-06-09 21:41, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 06/08/2013 09:03 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> What about the alternate installer, is that easy enough to run (it's
>>> text, but in a very guided way)?
>> Nio:
>>
>> The alternate installer works fine, but I first need to try out the live
>> CD to see if it supports my particular machine, and the applications I
>> use.  So I download the Live CD ISO of necessity, first.
>>
>> Then, when I decide to install, I could do another long download of the
>> Alternate Install ISO, but with my moderate-rate Internet speed, it is
>> easier (and quicker) to work-around the crash during the ubiquity
>> slide-show, by simply (while running the live CD, and before clicking on
>> the Install icon) use the package manager to remove the ubiquity
>> slide-show.
>>
>> That way, I don't have to download another ISO image, and it then
>> doesn't crash while copying files, and the installation completes
>> successfully.
>>
>> That has become my standard installation procedure on machines with only
>> 512 megabytes of RAM (some of which do not support more RAM).
>>
> I see, and I agree, that it a good method.
>
> Please explain how you remove the ubiquity slide-show! I don't know, and
> probably I'm not alone.
>
Nio, and all:

Running the live CD (which runs in RAM, so no changes are retained 
beyond the live session), execute Synaptic Package Manager (under the 
System menu).

Search for:

ubiquity

(You could also search for slideshow).

In the list of packages, you will see one called:

ubiquity-slideshow-lubuntu

Mark it to be removed, and apply the changes.

Then double-click the installation desktop icon.

During the time when the slideshow would be showing, the install window 
is small, but it does give you a progress indicator, and it doesn't 
crash - at least not for the insufficient RAM reason.

You could remove the above package with a single sudo apt-get command, 
but the method above does not depend on remembering the precise package 
name, or being able to look up the command in an old e-mail.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere




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