From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ILU1Y-00029r-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:19:44 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n7so109511wag for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.148.1 with SMTP id v1mr1218050wad.1187227182320; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.200.10 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <980058450708151819j31f8b48al28e9233e681a683e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:19:42 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=EDrian_Bruckschen?=" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: OT: Trouble installing Ubuntu on VmWare? In-Reply-To: <20070813001903.GA27465@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070812232534.GB21361@localhost.localdomain> <980058450708121653q7fca520bp7103240259b6f9c2@mail.gmail.com> <20070813001903.GA27465@localhost.localdomain> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:19:44 -0000 Hello Gregory, On 8/12/07, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > In my notebook > > everything went fine (even install), but I'm going to do the same in > > not-so-good machines, and I don't know if I will be able to make it > > (due to memory, in special: 256mb, while my notebook has 1gb). And two > > I'd be very surprised if that worked, since I seem to recall that the > ubuntu livecd needs 256Mb minimum, not to mention ram to run your host > os, in addition to virtualbox itself. Just to give you some feedback on this matter: yes, it didn't work -- trying it with 128mb to the vm, 192mb or 256mb. In these two last cases, "Windows could not allocate memory for this operation" (or some message with this meaning), which was expected. Anyway, thanks for preventing me. Cheers, --=20 M=EDrian Bruckschen