I was just talking a friend through a Live CD install of feisty on an older machine. It has 256M of RAM and no swap partition. This configuration runs the desktop CD very poorly. I have a similarly configured machine here, and the booting to the desktop takes 30 minutes. I configured the same machine with a swap partition, and the boot took around 8 minutes. When configured with 512M and a swap partition, boot time is about 5 minutes. What's more, with the swap partition, the desktop is actually usable, since apps get cached in swap.
The obvious suggestion is to use the alternate CD, but a graphical installer that has lower system resources would be nice. Or even if the Desktop CD had a boot mode that could launch the GUI installer using directfb-gtk (is that still around anymore?) without loading all of X and the entire desktop. -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
