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 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

Minimal Install (really netboot install) documentation (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Phill and Nio, Nio wrote: 3. But I don't understand ... 3.2 The talk about CLI. I used the default method, which is a text based wizard type interface, similar to that of the alternate iso. Why not choose that one? (A couple of weeks ago, the same actions did not work with the 12.04

Re: Minimal Install (really netboot install) documentation (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-20 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jonathan, I was trying to cut down the clutter of emails. I've copied Nio's work over to the JasonODoom area[1] so it can be worked on in peace. The one further task, now that lubuntu is available in tasksel as both desktop and core, is if there is any benefit to be sought by using the

Re: Minimal Install (really netboot install) documentation (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-20 Thread Karl Anliot
My mother (bless her heart) always told me not to pick at scabs. This installer thing is like a scab because I can't stop pick pick picking. :) BTW, has anyone updated the wiki to say that you can't use the 32-bit ISO's on secure boot pc's? :( -- Lubuntu-users mailing list

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

Re: zRAM for the Alternate Install? (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-18 Thread Phill Whiteside
So many threads on this!! as the desktop installer now seems to be pretty much working on 256Mb RAM machines, we do hit a point where the applications (browser, etc) will take a machine with less than 256 Mb RAM 'over the edge'. Please see [1] which is being updated as we learn more about what

Re: zRAM for the Alternate Install? (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-18 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: So many threads on this!! as the desktop installer now seems to be pretty much working on 256Mb RAM machines, we do hit a point where the applications (browser, etc) will take a machine with less than 256 Mb RAM 'over

Re: zRAM for the Alternate Install? (was: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] RAM needed for desktop installer reduced to half by zRAM )

2013-06-18 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Jackson Doak nosk...@ubuntu.com wrote: If you need testing on something below 128mb, let me know, i have access to a warehouse of ancient PCs Thank you so much for this offer but I do not think it worth the time and the effort. Lubuntu will be installed on