RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu

[Yorvyk]

On 16/06/13 21:11, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 06/16/2013 01:36 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>> I think asking people to use the "Install Lubuntu" menu item on the
>> desktop image is fine, as it is not difficult, and indeed is even
>> logical, since that is exactly what they want to do:)
>>
>> I think asking people with lower RAM machines to use the Alternate
>> Install CD is also fine, as it is no more difficult than using ubiquity,
>> just less pretty.
> Jonathan:
>
> I totally agree with you.  We cannot expect typical users to do
> complicated things.  Even asking them to enter commands in a terminal is
> too much to expect.
>
> The only problem with using the alternate install, is having to download
> yet another CD image, which can take a significant amount of time with
> slower Internet speed, and could cost you money if your Internet
> provider has a limit on Internet usage, after-which they charge you more.
>
> If there is a way we can get it to work with the live CD (as appears to
> be the case in the "zRAM and Live CD" e-mail stream), that would be a
> good thing.
>
> It's nice to first try-out the live CD on a new system level to see if
> it works on your hardware, and to try-out the new system.
>
> As a case illustrating that point, trying out the live CD on what 2
> months ago was my primary machine suggested that I could no longer use
> that machine going forward, because its Intel graphics was no longer
> supported.  It turned out, after installing 13.04, that I could no
> longer even watch YouTube videos on it, though it was a fairly modern
> machine (a Dell Dimension 1100, 2.5 gigahertz, 1 gigabytes RAM, but no
> AGP slot for a NVIDIA card).
>
That's another area that the zRAM approach would be useful, along with 
using it as a rescue disk on low RAM machines.

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Steve