minimum RAM for Ubuntu

[Dick Dowdell]

Hilary,

I've had no problems installing the Ubuntu desktop version 7.10 on my
granddaughter's 128 MB Sony VIAO notebook with a 6 GB hard drive.  The
install does hang from the Live CD but works well from the Alternate.

Regards,
Dick

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 31.03.2008, 17:35 -0700 schrieb Hilary Naylor:
> > 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.
> the livecd installer expects about 300M free ram, you need to use the
> alternate CD with its textmode installer for such hardware and should
> have a big swap partition defined for the finally installed system to
> enhance the physical ram ...
>
> over all you will find ubuntu no fun in such a setup, the desktop with
> all its bells and whistles needs most of it to operate (256M should be a
> minimum here, if the apps need more than teh 128M you got the system
> will start swapping to disk which makes everything slow)...
>
> a better suggestion would surely be to use xubuntu which has a desktop
> designed for low end systems and there install the educational apps
> separately.
>
> ciao
>        oli
>
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Dick Dowdell
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