On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote:
> On 06/17/2013 04:53 AM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > > > Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 12:48:27 schrieb Yorvyk: > > >> On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > >>> 2. Or was I doing something seriously wrong? > > >> Probably :D > > >> We need to run Saucy installs on as much hardware as possible as I > >> believe there is more to this than just RAM size. I suspect some > >> old CD drives aren't really up to it. I know the one in this > >> machine is somewhat erratic. > > > Therefore we need to recommend the usage of usb live sticks. > > CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives tend to fail and also cd/dvd-writers tend to > > write cd-rs with to much errors. > > You are free to recommend what you like, but older PCs are likely to > need a working CDROM drive just to be able to boot into an installer on > a USB stick, because their BIOSes won't allow them to boot directly from > USB. > > There are known easy ways to test the integrity of a desktop Lubuntu ISO > (and the drive it is in) once burned to a CD-R. Use the "Check disk for > defects" boot menu item if you have any reason to suspect issues with > the drive or the optical media, that is what it exists for. > > Given other issues such as the problems with usb-creator-gtk, I suggest > we keep things simple, and test one thing at once, here. > > The Subject line of this thread is: > > Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO > > Let's test that. Not test whether we can install with broken CDROM > drives, or whether older machines boot from USB. Please? > > Jonathan > > +1 Yet again, agreed :D -- "All of us are smarter than any one of us." *Best Regards,* *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* *Start Ubuntu<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> * *Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - **Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with 489MB RAM*
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