OT: ubuntu install problem

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At Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:19:36AM -0700 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bill Campbell was observed uttering:
> I don't know about Ubuntu, but 256MB RAM on a Thinkpad is pretty dicey for
> many current versions of Linux.  I ran Linux on my Thinkpad 600 for years

You serious?  What happened to the days of, "Will run with 4MB of
RAM...including X11?"  (Which I've done on a 386sx/16MHz 4MB, I might add).
Assuming you don't run X, what's requiring so darned much memory?

Somewhere they lost their way within the development circles, if that's the
reality these days.  (It shouldn't be...there are specs for running CentOS
on a Qube3, and that only has 128MB.)

Still, it doesn't make sense to me that memory is the issue if it dies in
the middle of fdisk.  That's not actually a memory intensive program.
Sounds more like a driver incompatibility to me.

mark->
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