Please test: compcache support on the liveCD

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sun Aug 24 15:08:25 BST 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> since last week the compcache support in casper and initramfs-tools as
> defined in the compcache spec [1] were added. With 25% of compcache
> usage it should now be possible again to use a liveCD with only 256M of
> system ram for installation. Sadly the changes didnt actually make it
> into the last alpha release as planned but entered the archive some
> hours to late. The changes are in the dailies though and testing would
> be appreciated ... please file bugs if you encounter any problems ...

I completed a successful installation with 256MB of RAM following this
change. This was by booting into "Try Ubuntu" and then starting the
installer, so there should be loads of headroom for the more efficient
"Install Ubuntu" path.

Thanks!

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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