Installation problem, partitionar stuck at 52% .....(Using IDE HDD)

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:52:47PM +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:57:09 +0530
> "Yogesh soni" <india.yogi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now problem is this that i'm not be able to install ubuntu 5.10 on my
> > system.
> > *My System specification is as follows,
> > * Intel P-III 667 MHz.
> > * RAM : 64 MB SDRAM
> 
> 64MB RAM isn't enough for a default install of Ubuntu - the recommended
> minimum is 128MB.

This will be better in Dapper; the installer should function with as
little as 32MB.

> The fact that the problem surfaces so early in the install - with
> partitioning - is odd though.

What's happening is that the partitioner is starting up, crashing due to
out-of-memory, and then failing to restart properly.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]