I made simulare suggestion to Bug #196494 . I do not have old hardware but i testing Live CDs on my "strong" PC with kvm/qemu. For short time i forgot to start the virtual image with "-m 512" so it took default 128 MB, xorg was able to start but not gnome.
Now i made some testing, with different amount of RAM, here is example of command line i used: /opt/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0 -boot d -cdrom isos/hardy-desktop-i386.iso -m 300 ubuntu.qcow2 1. 128 MB, this is defaul kvm/qemu settings. xorg started but gnome was not able to start nautilus and other applications. 2. 200 MB, xorg and gnome desktop was able to start but ubuntu installer not. 3. 300 MB; xorg, gnome, installer was able to start and installation was complete in some time. -- Live CD should recommend alternate CD on slow computers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121517 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
