For the last four hours I was trying to install Fedora 18-64 on the computer and for an hour and a half I've been trying to do an install that hasn't worked; if was like experiencing Microsoft's "blue screen of death". Thankfully after pulling out the CD I had 17 installed.

And... um... this isn't exactly "public".


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> wrote:
On 01/21/2013 04:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> In addition, Anaconda's memory use has been skyrocketing for several
> releases, and the design changes in F18 have done nothing to address that
> issue. (In fact, they likely made it worse.)

That claim is dead wrong, at least for graphical install of the default Gnome
desktop from full install DVD or USB stick.  I have installed fedora-17-i386
that way successfully using 383MB of RAM [1], and fedora-18-i386 using 511MB
of RAM [2].  I believe that fedora-18 can be installed using less RAM, but
511MB was what I tested.  I believe that the enforced minimum for fedora-15
and fedora-16 was 768MB RAM, which is considerably larger than my successes
with fedora-17 and fedora-18.

I consider that you owe Anaconda a public apology.  You might be able
to squirm out of it if you document your experiments meticulously,
including measurements.


References:
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2012-May/msg00203.html
[2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2013-January/113105.html

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