[rescue] Never thought I'd ask this

Chad McAuley chizad at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 09:25:52 CDT 2007


On 10/22/07, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
> The steam powered teletype chattered and a message from Phil Stracchino
> rolled out in a wad of paper tape...
> >
> > ......Bah.  Can't do it.  The Ubuntu installer CD requires 320MB RAM.
> > This POS is maxed out at 192MB.  That looks to be just barely enough for
> > xubuntu though.
>
> WTF Ubuntu installer are you using?  I've installed Ubuntu in 128M of ram
> - I have the server version running on a C333 Compaq desktop under that
> ceiling.

Try the alternate install CD.  I forget the exact requirements, but
~320MB of RAM sounds sounds right for the regular install CDs since
they're live CDs.



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