failed installation with 256 MB RAM

[Brie Gordon]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM, A M B <tiredofsomething at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I want to switch to Ubuntu from Windows XP on a DELL Latitude C400 laptop.
> It has 256 MB RAM and 30 GB disk space, of which more than 27 are presently
> free. There is no internal CD drive. I borrowed a DELL external CD drive,
> but the cable didn't fit the opening. Then I tried another CD drive that
> connects to the USB port, but the bios won't boot from there. So I inserted
> a Ubuntu live CD while on Windows, and tried to do the installation from
> there (there were a couple of options available) but, whatever I try to do,
> I get an error message like "you need 256 MB of memory to run the
> installer". The thing is, I do have 256 MB! Why is it complaining? I really
> want to install Ubuntu, but I don't want to buy an external CD drive or to
> add extra memory.
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated. Cheers,
> AMB
>
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> Welcome!

384MB of RAM is required to use the live CD based installer, according to
Ubuntu's website.
You may want to select the alternate desktop CD box on this page:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Download that ISO, burn it and try again.

Best of luck.



Regards,

Brie Gordon

http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html
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