<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jonathan Carter wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1162833960.28264.7.camel@megabook" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Jani On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 19:09 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Unfortunatley we have a bad regression since dapper. The liveCD will not function properly with 128M of RAM and no swap. This I only noticed in qemu and wrongly assumed (hoped) it's specific to it, but we get bugreports confirming it on real machines. This sadly makes xubuntu lose one of its selling points :( I have no idea what causes the extra memory use, it may be system-tools-backend which use perl, but I don't know for sure. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm working on a local derivative of Edubuntu/Xubuntu for schools, and I've let local people know that we will be using the live cd infrastructure. Some of the more technical people was already unhappy about this because the livecd doesn't have a rescue mode, and the bigger problem they have is that you can't install it on low memory (like 128MB) machines. What I've done to get arround this, is make the default session a little python+glade interface I created, where they can start the installer without logging into the Xubuntu session, this allows you to even install it on a computer with a bit less than 128MB RAM, here's a screenshot of the chooser I made: </pre> </blockquote> Perfect! When I install (x)ubuntu on a machine, I don't want/need a complete desktop environment, the installer alone is more than enough. If I do want a DE, it would be very nice if it would be selectable (on boot)... -H- <blockquote cite="mid1162833960.28264.7.camel@megabook" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://photos.jonathancarter.co.za/screenshots/dvd">http://photos.jonathancarter.co.za/screenshots/dvd</a> (artwork not final yet, it will look way better when it's done). I showed this to cjwatson, and he suggested that it gets integrated in GDM instead. That gave me an idea for a fix for this problem for Xubuntu too, you could add another session to GDM that will just run ubiquity, and make it possible to install on a low-end machine. Otherwise, I'd be glad to share my tool when it's more polished, but at the moment the code isn't very elegant at all. :) -Jonathan </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>