On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:42:57 +0400
Mikhail Maksimov mcwil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, all.
I was testing the 10.10 betas on a low-spec machine and found that, for
both versions, with 256 Mb RAM the Live CD session starts normally, but
launching the installer kills the system in a creative way: everything
disappears except the wallpaper and mouse pointer (I mean, menu, installer
icon, lxtask that I started earlier), however Ctrl+Alt+F(n) works and from a
text console ps ax | grep ubiq shows nothing, the installer process is
gone.
lxtask says I have 243 MB of RAM installed, top says I've got 249844k total
memory. AFAIK swap partitions get used silently by Live CD if present, so I
cleared the partition table before running tests.
Adding another 128 Mb stick to the box solves the problem, so I believe it
really is the RAM amount that matters. Unfortunately all my 32 and 64 Mb
sticks fail so I cannot be any more precise.
Thus the current beta does not seem to be installable with not less than
160 Mb as stated in the wiki. I'm wondering if it's permanent, or just the
beta effect which may get fixed when and if the install menu item works,
not just the try one.
If anyone can confirm or correct my findings it is good to have it all
documented in the wiki.
It really does seem to depend on the hardware. I have installed with 160 MiB of
RAM and a swap partition, on one machine. While a machine with 256 MiB of RAM
and Intel video wouldn’t install, even with a swap partition. On the later
machine the Ubuntu beta works but not on the former. I haven’t been able to
make much sense of it. I have tried other LXDE based distros such as
OpenSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva ,and they exhibit similar erratic behavour.
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