After the wipe out as stated in the last post... i am still waiting for the ubuntu alterate cd to download.
However meanwhile I found a way to make my server cd install go ahead where it was getting killed by OOM Killer.
I happens to be the case that till the installer starts the partitioner it consumes almost all of 64 mb but still manges to stay alive.So the process to make it work is as follows.
It needs a swap partition to be present on the system. If you don't have one already on the disk, the cd comes with a rescue mode. Use that to create a 500 MB swap paritioin on your disk. Then run the installation. After it reaches partitioner, switch to second terminal and start the console by typing enter. Turn the swap on using command "swapon /dev/<whatever the partition you created>" and you are done just proceed with regular install.
NOTE: Due to swapping the install will be even slower.... on top of what is probably a P-III or P-IV system. I am stil waiting for the install to complete. Its waiting on generating all the locales which is going to take rreeeeaaalllllyyyyy lllooooonnnnnggggg time.
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