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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shush, do not let them all know that full adoption is but one step of our
taking over the entire world :P

I have had a dig around, but cannot find a bug report over the RAM issue, if
there is none filed then I will file one and associate it with the existing
HD bug, it does really seem that ubiquity wants twice as much. Whilst I can
appreciate the 2.3GB hell that occurred in the past, taking a sledge hammer
approach to it is VERY wrong.

Regards,

Phill

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 07/25/2011 09:58 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>
> > When you were poking around with the installer for your low-disk
> > space install version of 11.04, did you see anything that also
> > doubled up the minimal RAM requirement? The standard build now
> > requires 384MB RAM, a couple of people have now flagged this up. (Try
> > installing it on 256MB of RAM).
>
>
>
>
> I think I noticed that somewhere during alpha 3 testing, mentioned it,
> and the response was along the lines of "it's ubiquity, not much we can
> do about it".
>
> I think when I tested it the installer RAM requirement was closer to
> 320MB than 384MB though, are you sure a full 384MB is needed?
>
> Since then there was discussion of making the "Alternate" text mode
> installer UI be the default Lubuntu ISO, which makes sense to me.  Of
> course, that needs us to be able to *create* an Alternate CD, which
> needs Canonical to get the build system working for us... or for us to
> do a lot of work to do it ourselves.  When I suggested I create a build
> system here I was more or less told "oh, don't do that, it would be a
> lot of work"... so I didn't, and now here we are with no build system!
>
> I'm in a bit of a "wait and see" mode at the moment; if we really don't
> get a working build system from Canonical by Alpha 3, I'll probably have
> to make time and DIY something as a stopgap measure.  It's just that I
> feel like the moment I actually do that, it will be eclipsed by the
> "real" install setup finally working!!
>
> Jonathan
>
>


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