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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-06-21 02:21, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Nio,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> 
>> By the way, I edited the page about mini.iso
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
>>
>> to indicate that it can be used from USB now (which is good for
>> netbook users and for people with bad CD/DVD drives).
>>
>> And I noticed that the network installation by the mini iso is not
>> portable like the one by the desktop iso.
> 
> Do you mean it set up a static IP address for the Lubuntu machine,
> instead of using DHCP?  Or something else?  What is a "portable" network
> installation?  My VM install on a desktop host isn't "portable" (well,
> except by copying the .vdi file and xml file defining the VM, I
> suppose!).

I saw it worked but was different to what I am used to. So I installed
it to a USB drive and plugged it into another computer. And I had no
internet connection. Dead! But the instructions on the wiki page, that
Phill asked me to edit, there was a solution. Now it looks and feels and
works as usual.

I think it hardcoded the connection to a MAC address because I ran it in
a machine with two ethernet ports and it asked which one to use (it did
not check which one was connected (only one of them was connected).

> 
>> A. If we plan to write '(3) 128MB to 256MB: Use the netboot mini.iso
>>    ...' in the official document, someone must volunteer to test the
>>    RAM limits with the mini.iso for Lubuntu Saucy.
> 
> Yes.  Simple on a VM, awkward on real hardware because it will be
> very slow :)

It is probably enough to run in a VM, but remember to subtract, what is
subtracted from RAM in a typical real machine (256 ---> 242) MB.
> 
>> Or maybe that should belong to item 2, the advanced stuff. To be
>> honest, Knoppix or Puppy are better alternatives than Lubuntu for
>> such low RAM. I have hands on experience from an old Compaq with
>> 192 MB RAM.
> 
> They may be, but we are Lubuntu... recommending other distros is outside
> our scope :)

I wouldn't write that on a wiki page, but we must be able to mention it
in an internal discussion. But with that in mind, we might avoid to
mention the possibility to run Lubuntu below 256 MB RAM.

> 
>> B. What about zRAM for the alternate iso? Please state your opinion!
> 
> I'd like to see it tested.  Phill and I poked Julien about this recently
> -- if it is easy to add, we'll get it added so we can test it.

I'm looking forward to it :-)
> 
> Jonathan
>