[Bug 93361] Re: feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
It seems that 256Meg is our suggested minimum for livecd boot/install. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system https://launchpad.net/bugs/93361 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 93361] Re: feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Florian
Having upped the assigned memory to 256MB, feisty seems to have installed fine from the desktop CD. I've not tried the alternate CD, but I imagine it'd require less memory. So, it turns out that this was simply a memory issue. It seems 256MB should be a hard minimum for installing from the Desktop

[Bug 93361] Re: feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system

2007-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
So just the VB instance hung, not the machine it's running on? Did increasing the mem for the VB instance help? Does using the alternate CD help? Could it just be a bug in VirtualBox? ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ben Collins Status: Unconfirmed

[Bug 93361] Re: feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system

2007-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
It might well be a memory problem; either way, surely the kernel should just refuse to allocate memory rather than hanging like this. You might find that if you try to repeat this problem, but switch to a virtual console shortly before the hang, that you can get an oops log out of the kernel, if th

[Bug 93361] Re: feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system

2007-03-18 Thread Mark Florian
** Attachment added: "Where the installer hung the system" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6851058/feisty-herd-5-hang.jpg -- feisty herd 5 desktop cd installer hangs system https://launchpad.net/bugs/93361 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail