Installing Ubuntu in a very poor performace machine...

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Tue Apr 13 05:40:47 UTC 2010


On 04/12/2010 10:27 PM, Xander Pirdy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:18 AM, arshad<arshad3m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> A friend of mine needs to have Ubuntu installed in his machine
>> which has 10GB HDD, 128mb RAM, 32mb VGA, 800GHz processor. I
>> tried installing hardy, jaunty and karmic but all got stuck in
>> the middle for some reasons i don't know. I think its due to the
>> low resources of the machine. Is it possible to install jaunty in
>> his hdd by plugging it into my motherboard?
>>
>> mine is a core to duo and all other specifications are different
>> from him.
>>
>> please give some advice.
>>
>> thanks a lot.
>
> I wouldn't suggest trying to run any of the ubuntu's with only
> 128MB of ram. In fact I think that most if not all of them won't
> install for this reason (unless you maybe use the alternate install
> CD). And even if you did the roundabout install I doubt they would
> run (except maybe xubuntu, but from memory that even requires more
> than 128MB of ram). What do you need this for? I would recommend
> looking into Puppy linux or DSL. (I am partial to puppy and know
> that it installs and runs fairly speedily for me even on machines
> with 128MB of ram, and on much slower processors then 800MHz (I
> assume he doesn't have an 800GHz processor). -Xander

Lubuntu will install in 128MB of RAM IIRC. But I think the OP's friend
might want to get some more memory on that machine if he can. At least
256MB if possible just to have some room to move.
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