Problem with installation

[NoOp]

On 02/24/2009 06:28 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Víctor A. Trejo Peña:
> 
>> Hi. I just downloaded and recorderd Ubuntu. I tried to install it into a
>> Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz, with 128 MB RAM.
> 
> Looking at the system requirements, I read here
> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/desktopedition
> | At least 256 MB of RAM is required to run the alternate install CD (384MB of
> | RAM is required to use the live CD based installer). Install requires at
> | least 4 GB of disk space.
> and here
> http://www.xubuntu.org/get
> | You need 128 MB RAM to run the Live CD or 192 MB RAM to install. The
> | Alternate Install CD only requires you to have 64 MB RAM at install time.
> | To install Xubuntu, you need 1.5 GB of free space on your hard disk. Once
> | installed, Xubuntu can run with 192 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended
> | to have at least 256 MB RAM.
> 
> So it seems that you're simply out of luck if you want to run a desktop Ubuntu 
> on a machine with 128 MB RAM.
> If upgrading the machine's RAM is not an option, you could give the Xubuntu 
> alternate CD a try and after installation setup an even more lightweight X 
> environment.
> 
> Regards
>   mks
> 
> 

Interesting...

I have Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (Gnome) running on a 350Mhz/128Mb test laptop.
I used the Alternate CD and it installed just fine (albeit very, very
slow due to the machine speed and limited memory). Note that I would not
recommend doing this, unless you like watching: grass grow, offshore
sailboat racing from the shoreline, and slow things in general :-)

In addition to xubuntu, there is a rather nice & very lightweight
desktop that I use called lxde:

http://www.lxde.org/
http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Blxde