minimum RAM for Ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

Hilary Naylor wrote:
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu (or Edubuntu) on a Dell latitude CPt laptop 
> that was donated to my school. The installation stalls at the point where 
> there is a brown rectangle on the screen and the icon for Nautilus appears. 
> The laptop has only 129MB RAM (and a 6GB hard disk). Is this the reason it 
> is stalling?
    No, not if you already have at least a 1 GB swap partition. If not 
then do that next :-)

>  Is there a minimal version of Ubuntu I could use? I am afraid 
> that more RAM for the laptop will be too expensive.
>
>   
    What happens is when the system needs to use the swap partition it 
will be very slow. This is a problem but it will work fine.
> thanks
> Hilary
>
>   
Good Luck, Karl


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> Hilary Naylor
> Technology Coordinator
> Parker Elementary School
> Oakland, CA
>
>
>   


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