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

Joao Inacio jcinacio at gmail.com
Fri May 12 16:31:58 BST 2006


On 5/12/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Well, this turned out to be an unnecessary diversion. Much to my relief,
> it turned out that there was a better way to do this which avoided the
> 50MB memory hit while also avoiding the size penalty on the CD images.
> See https://launchpad.net/bugs/43071 for the details.
>
> I like being able to have my cake and eat it. Mmm, cake.

Great news, and everyone loves cake! ;)

Does this mean that those 50MB are no longer used?
and if so (and assuming no swap), can we expect the minimum memory
requirements for the install to be arround 192MB?

Thanks
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João Inácio
http://www.jcinacio.com



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