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

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Joao Inacio napisał(a):
> 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?

I don't think so. Desktop environment alone uses more than that, it is
even currently on the edge with ~240MB of RAM.

Regards

	Krzysztof Lichota

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