[Bug 1050595] Re: Ubuntu Server installation with 128M ram hangs

[Doug Smythies]

Having received and e-mail on both the docs and server lists about
serverguide minimum memory requirements changes, I found this bug
report.

I have a 200 Mhz computer with only 128 Mbytes of memory.
The computer was used throughout the 12.04 release cycle as a minimum requirements test case. Until today I have not been involved with any 12.10 testing.

Todays 12.10 i386 ISO was downloaded and put to CD-ROM.
Installation went fine, except the install-grub stage was incredibly slow. Now the server is running fine.

The only time this computer has run out of memory is with 11.10 when I
tried to compile the kernel. It took 33 hours 4 minutes and 57.6 seconds
before it gave up with an out of memory error.

Myself, I don't think the minimum memory requirements needed to be
increased, at least for real hardware. I don't really care if they are,
I'm just saying is all.

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Title:
  Ubuntu Server installation with 128M ram hangs

Status in “lowmem” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “lowmem” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-docs” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Installing quantal 20120913 server image hangs at detecting disks and
  all other hardware with 128M.  Our currently stated minimum system
  requirements include 128M ram for -server installs, so I'm using a KVM
  session with 128M to test this.

  Bumping this to 256 will allow it to make it through the install, but
  still get's lots of OOMs throughout the installation process.

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