Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

[Nio Wiklund]

On 2013-06-17 14:05, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de
> <mailto:leszek.lesner at web.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 12:48:27 schrieb Yorvyk:
>     > On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>     >
>     > > 2. Or was I doing something seriously wrong?
>     >
>     > Probably :D
>     >
>     > We need to run Saucy installs on as much hardware as possible as I
>     > believe there is more to this than just RAM size. I suspect some
>     old CD
>     > drives aren't really up to it. I know the one in this machine is
>     > somewhat erratic.
> 
>     Therefore we need to recommend the usage of usb live sticks.
>     CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
>     drives tend to fail and also cd/dvd-writers tend to write cd-rs with
>     to much
>     errors.
> 
> 
> Hello Leszek,
> 
> You may forgot that some old machines don't really have USB Ports. If
> these have, the machine doesn't boot from that USB and not everyone
> knows about PLOP, and yes, we are talking about the new and beginners users.
> 
> I do agree that LiveUSB makes a lot of difference indeed as far as I've
> seen for the last 2 years for so many tests I have personally done.
> However, the classic and the standard approach, IMHO, shall be the LiveCD.
> 
> -- 
> 
> "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
> 
> *Best Regards,*
> *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>*
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> 
> /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with
> 489MB RAM/
> 
> 
>
Live CD is classic but not standard nowadays, Ali ;-)

"Small is beautiful"

If you like the CD style, you can clone the iso directly to the USB
pendrive. It is very fast and has a high success rate. For example, it
is not disturbed by the [previous] content of the target drive, but it
can use the content to identify that it is the correct drive (in my case
for Lubuntu Saucy 32-bit). This eliminates the risk to clone it to the
wrong drive. I use my script to make it safe and very convenient to
transfer the daily build to a pendrive.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073

Like the CD, it is read-only, you need another method to get
persistence. I have found that it works with all current Ubuntu flavour
desktop, alternate and server iso files but not the mini.iso (which is a
known issue, documented in our wiki).

Best regards
Nio