Installer from live CD not launching

[Leszek Lesner]

Am 15.10.2014 17:37, schrieb Aere Greenway:
> On 10/15/2014 04:28 AM, leszek.lesner at web.de wrote:
>> I am not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for
>> the installer to work.
>>
> I have successfully installed Lubuntu 14.04 on Pentium 3 (and Pentium
> 4) machines having only 512 megabytes of RAM, using the Live CD. 
>
> As I recall, when I last did this, installing from running the live
> desktop, it died during the install, after which I ran the install
> from booting (rather from the live desktop), and it succeeded. 
Oh ok I might have confused something here.
>
> I have also noticed (as I recall), that when you install from the live
> desktop, it takes surprisingly long after double-clicking the icon,
> before I get an installation window displayed.  My speculation on
> this, is that it is updating the installer before starting it. 
I don't think it is updating but rather swapping hard to start the
installer (as it uses zram in that case compressing stuff)

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