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Исправление h578b1bde, (текущая версия) :

Поскольку изначально речь шла о XP SP3 vs Mint:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc507836.aspx
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (2008)

Hardware requirements

A 233 megahertz (MHz) processor
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM
900 MB of available disk space during installation



http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=492
Linux Mint 6 Felicia (2008)

System requirements and known issues:

A minimum of 512MB of RAM is recommended for the liveCD. Once installed the system works fine with as low as 256MB RAM. The installation process deals with 2.5GB of data compressed on a 700MB CD and it can hang or fail on systems with less than 512MB RAM. If you have between 256MB and 512MB RAM you may have to try to install several times.


При этом я намеренно взял версию линуксминта того же года выпуска что и XP SP3, уверен что более новые версии жрут больше.

Исходная версия h578b1bde, :

Поскольку изначально речь шла о XP SP3 vs Mint:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc507836.aspx
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (2008)

Hardware requirements

A 233 megahertz (MHz) processor
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM
900 MB of available disk space during installation



http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=492
Linux Mint 6 Felicia (2008)

System requirements and known issues:

A minimum of 512MB of RAM is recommended for the liveCD. Once installed the system works fine with as low as 256MB RAM. The installation process deals with 2.5GB of data compressed on a 700MB CD and it can hang or fail on systems with less than 512MB RAM. If you have between 256MB and 512MB RAM you may have to try to install several times.


При этом я намеренно взял версию линуксминта того же года выпуска что и XP SP3, уверен что более старые версии жрут больше.