Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Feb 15 13:54:58 UTC 2019


At Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:08:43 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 15.02.2019, 07:47 -0500 schrieb Robert Heller:
> > I am trying to run/install Ubuntu 18.04 in a VM on my CentOS 6 Laptop
> > and it 
> > is never coming up.  The boot process seems to be looping.  I have
> > two 
> > questions:
> > 
> > Does live/install ISO Ubuntu 18.04 need a connection to the public
> > Internet to 
> > come up?  I only have dialup Internet and initially, the network will
> > be to a 
> > closed vlan.  Is the a problem?
> > 
> > Also, I have only allocated 1G of RAM to the VM.  Is this too little?
> > 
> 
> it should definitely not require network to have anything come up on
> screen (there are some features in the installer that require
> networking but i don't think they are enabled by default (i.e. apply
> security updates directly during install or downloading the multimedia
> codecs) and usually offer you a check box to turn them on/off in the
> first installer screen...
> 
> 1GB seems pretty low for running a desktop install though, i'd try with
> at least 2G or even 4 if you can ...

The maching has a total of 4gig physical RAM.  I upped the VM memory to 2gig.

> 
> (it might also be relevant what kind of VM this is and if it has
> GL/GLES support)

The default virtualization (KVM/QEMU) under CentOS 6. The native processor is
an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6670 @ 2.20GHz, which I *believe* is what the
VMs get.

> 
> ciao
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