I found a way to install Xubuntu Dapper on a little machine ( laptop
IBM Thinkpad with 128 MB memory ).
The main problem is that ubiquity unmounts all swap parttions during
disk partitioning.
My solution needs two tricks :
1 Use a swap partition on a USB key,
2 Prevent ubiquity from unmounting it.
I added a third trick : create a little ext3 partition on the USB key
to store the interesting log files which are generally lost in case of
system crash or freeze ( unmounting swap partition on a machine with not
enough memory often leads to system freeze ).
In what follows, I suppose that the USB key is recognized as device 'sda'.
With gparted, create a swap partition sda1 of at least 100 MB, and an ext3
partiton sda2 of about 10 MB. Then, perform the following actions in a terminal
:
1 sudo su
# to feel quiet in following actions
2 swapon /dev/sda1
3 mkdir -p /media/sda2
4 mount /dev/sda2 /media/sda2 -t ext3 -o defaults
5 cd /media/sda2
6 touch syslog
7 touch partman
8 cd /var/log
9 ln -s /media/sda2/partman
10 mkdir -p installer
11 cd installer
12 ln -s /media/sda2/syslog
13 cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity
14 rm -f misc.pyc
15 rm -f misc.pyo
# to force python interpreter to recompile misc.py file
16 mousepad misc.py &
17 In 'disable_swap', replace line
if swap.startswith('/dev'):
by the three following lines
if swap.startswith('/dev/sda'):
pass
elif swap.startswith('/dev'):
then save the file and exit mousepad.
18 Launch the installer
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Xubuntu Desktop CD needs more than 128 MB RAM to boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70561
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