Installing Ubuntu in a very poor performace machine...

[Steve]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:40:47 +0100, sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
Unfortunately Lubuntu needs 160MiB to install at the moment unless you  
have a swap partition on the HDD.  Your idea of plugging the drive into  
your machine is a good solution if your machine has an IDE connector that  
is.  Unplug all your HDDs and install Lubuntu then transfer it back to  
your friends machine.  Lubuntu will run in 128MiB quite well.  Remember  
Lubuntu is only in Beta at the moment so there tends to be a few updates  
each day, also your friend will need to add the Lubuntu PPA to  
sources.list as some parts are not yet in the Ubuntu repos.

Lubuntu-Desktop PPA: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop/+archive/ppa

Lubuntu mailing list:  https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop

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Steve (Yorvyk)
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