Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-22 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Phill, Please have a look at this page, where I have tried to add my experience to the original text (at the page without /JasonOdoom). If you compare the pages in web browser windows it is easier to see the differences than comparing the sources (but do both if you want to find all details).

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Jonathan, See inline comments Best regards/Nio On 2013-06-20 05:00, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/19/2013 03:05 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Results with 'grub-n-iso-n-swap' and Pentium M indicate that using the default installation (starting from a blank drive or overwriting it) is maybe

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: - Would it be possible to add the Ubiquity command to the Openbox right-click menu? ... If you are techie enough to play around like that, you are probably techie enough to remember a command :) I was thinking, that people could be

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi everybody, On 2013-06-20 19:56, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: - Would it be possible to add the Ubiquity command to the Openbox right-click menu? ... If you are techie enough to play around like that, you are probably techie enough to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Nio, if you're currently 'playing' with mini iso and usb, can you check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall I've not updated details on usb sticks and mini-iso, nor the network manager stuff for a couple of cycles now. Thanks, Phill. On 20 June 2013

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Phill, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall 1. I added the following indented line(s) - If you are using a USB device to install the system, follow the USB Guide Unlike other iso images available on this site, older versions of the mini.iso do not

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-20 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Nio, yes, the make usb used to work (the XENVO drive is mine in that section) and I am aware of work being carried out to make it work again. As we are still pre-alpha stage, I'm hopeful that a resolution will be found so making USB pendrives work again before we go to release. I do not recall

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-19 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-06-18 15:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi everybody, I was made aware of a typing error in the attached text file. 'RAM' should be changed to 'swap' at the end of the line: correct: Crashes at 224, 192 MB RAM also with 2 GB swap -o- Anyway, I have a short report from testing the

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/19/2013 03:05 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Results with 'grub-n-iso-n-swap' and Pentium M indicate that using the default installation (starting from a blank drive or overwriting it) is maybe slightly smoother than a complicated manual partitioning at the 'Something else' page. Good :)

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM

2013-06-18 Thread Julien Lavergne
2013/6/18 Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com: WHy is zRAM removed from the daily build? Is it a mistake, was the idea to test zRAM only a few days, or did someone find something really bad with it? I don't really know to what mail I should answer, but if you want to know the content of the