Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubuntu-live
I have tried for a while to install different brands of Ubuntu Dapper
Drake 6.06 on a 400 MHz iMac DV with 128 Mb RAM. I finally got it right
but it was not out of the box. One problem was that the installer turned
of the swap once I fugured out that one was needed to be able to install
at all.
Workaround for this problem could be 'cp /bin/true /sbin/swapoff'
I think that the live cd has to consider the following:
- If no swap is present on lowmemory machines create (a temporary?) one
before entering X, otherwise the system will be hogged by decompressing
pages from the squashfs on the CD and freeze doing this.
- The installer should not do a swapoff but also be able to resuse the
swap partition and even not consider to initialize the swap if it is
used already.
My workaround resulted in creating a new swap so now I have two.
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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livecd turns off swap freezing install process on low memory machines
https://launchpad.net/bugs/65018
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