As wierd as it may sound it seems it seems this problem solved itself
somehow somwhere between Beta and Final . With that beeing said bug
squashed . The final release works like a charm on the machine with 196
MB of RAM despite the fact that it doesn't use the swap partition.
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I ment 160 MB in the previous message. sorry about that
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** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Fix Released
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Note that Safe Graphics Mode would not work because of bug #59618.
And your swap file would not be used because of bug #62868.
That said, the issue, as you described it, doesn't seem to be related to video
driver problems, nor to your scarce amount of RAM (*): none of these would make
the
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Sourcepackagename: None = linux-source-2.6.17
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i don't belive that to be a reason not to boot at all. If i am not
mistaken the live cd also may use a swap partition if it finds one. And
that sistem has one of about 760 MB .And besides.. one of the other
systems i tried edgy live on had 128 MB and it worked ;) so... i don't
think that's the
Desktop CDs (Live CDs) suggest a minimum of 192 MB of RAM.
This may be the cause of the problem.
It is possible edgy makes more use of the expected 192 MB of RAM, when
compared to the dapper CDs.
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