On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 09:03 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:25:53PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:04:31AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
Do these older/limited machines do anything better now than they did in the 2.4 kernel days?
Good luck trying to get the installer to run on anything less than 512MB these days.
Don't bother: either
- Use an existing disk image and upgrade it (works in 128MB)
Part of the selinux-policy-targeted upgrade does something whih munches through stupid amounts of memory. On any box I've tried this on with <512MB, the oom killer kicks in, and then I've been left with the mess of a half upgraded box, with lots of rpms listed twice in the rpmdb.
So it's not an install, its an upgrade? I'm just asking b/c that normally changes the set of things rpm has to do wrt file comparisons and checking.
Upgrades will probably take more memory than installs.
-sv