As wierd as it may sound it seems it seems this problem solved itself somehow somwhere between Beta and Final . With that beeing said bug squashed . The final release works like a charm on the machine with 196 MB of RAM despite the fact that it doesn't use the swap partition.
-- edgy live cd fails to boot on old machine https://launchpad.net/bugs/60940 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
