Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 12:56 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:47:24PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > On 8/10/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > > Oh, except for one thing: the live cd based installer was completely
> > > > unusable.  Way too piggy.  I had to use the alternate installer.
> > >
> > > This is not a fault in the live installer...
> > 
> > http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ claims that the live installer only
> > requires 192MB of system RAM.   That's about what my 256MB system has
> > (after subtracting shared video RAM), and it was bad enough that it
> > was unusable.
> > Thus it's either a bug in the live installer, or a bug in the release notes.
> > 
> > I'll try to measure what the real RAM requirement of the live installer is.
> >
> > It always amazes me when people claim that bloated RAM requirements
> > are not a bug.
> 
> That figure was the result of real-world testing; we used the installer in
> an environment with that amount of RAM and thereby established the
> requirement.  Check the amount of available memory with
> System->Administration->System Monitor.
> 
I suspect the mistake we made there was testing the installer on an
ordinary system with a swap device available.

My vague back-of-envelope math suggests that the LiveCD needs closer to
384MB to get the installer to the point where it can make and activate a
swap partition.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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