minimum RAM for Ubuntu

[Owen Townend]

On 01/04/2008, Hilary Naylor <hilary.naylor at ousd.k12.ca.us> 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? Is there a minimal version of Ubuntu I could use? I am afraid
> that more RAM for the laptop will be too expensive.
>
> thanks
> Hilary
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> Parker Elementary School
> Oakland, CA
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Hey,
  If you are installing Ubuntu using the livecd, perhaps
try installing using the alternate disk instead[1]. This is just an
installer meaning it doesn't load an entire usable desktop _and_ the installer.
This tends to be more successfull with less ram available.
  For Edubuntu this would be the 'Edubuntu 7.10 Classroom Server CD'
choosing 'Workstation'[2].

  If the system runs too slowly once up and running you may want to try
XUbuntu (which uses a more lightweight window manager) instead and then add
the Education packages.

cheers,
Owen.

[1] This is a checkbox option on the Ubuntu download page
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
[2] http://www.edubuntu.org/Download
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