minimum RAM for Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 03/31/2008 05:40 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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 :-)

You *can't have a 1GB swap partition* if it's not installing.

> 
>>  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.

Nonsense. Please read the OP's post before replying.