Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM

[Krzysztof Lichota]

I want to draw your attention to bug I have reported about Ubiquity:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/43071/

Basically, if you have 256 MB of RAM or less and do not have swap
partition (which of course most Windows users do not have), you cannot
install Kubuntu (Ubuntu probably too).

IMO this makes Dapper user base really limited and I guess it is not the
point.

I have proposed some solutions:
1. Adding text-mode Ubiquity.
2. Adding swap on Windows partition/in free space if available.
3. Spawning only Ubiquity in Xserver (simplest, but does not work for
128 MB of RAM).

I didn't get much response and I think it is critical issue. Because,
what is the point of distributing LiveCD which user cannot install?

Regards

	Krzysztof Lichota

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