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On Mon, 10 May 2010, Karel Volný wrote:
On Monday 10 of May 2010 18:35:22 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 04:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 21:21 +0530, A. Mani wrote:
>>> How is the F13 installer supposed to behave on low ram
>>> systems (<512)?
>>
>> You get to keep both pieces. =)
>>
>> Release notes state:
>>
>> #
>> Minimum RAM for text-mode: 256 MiB
>> #
>> Minimum RAM for graphical: 348 MiB
>> #
>> Recommended RAM for graphical: 512 MiB
>>
>> it's a very inexact science, though, it depends on exactly
>> what install media you're using and what kind of install
>> you're trying to do. We try to keep to those numbers as
>> much as possible.
>
> Ironically the installer requires two times more memory than
> LXDE recommends ( 128+ MiB ) for run time usage
> sad but true.....
not long ago, I've heard something about plans to drop text mode
support ... that would make it three times ;-)
Text mode is still there, you just don't get as many options as graphical
mode. If you need those options and cannot run graphical mode, you need to
use kickstart.
<useless rant>
but I guess that LXDE should recommend at least 384 MiB when
running on Fedora - last week I forgot to add "-m 512" to qemu,
so I've started my virtual machine with the default of 128 MiB
and 'yum upgrade' (in text mode, init 3) got killed ... so you
need more, let's say 256 for yum + 128 for LXDE makes 384
btw, have I mentioned that 4 GiB modules are still not available
in my favourite local store, and very few Internet shops here in
Czech rep. have them (for insane prices, of course)?
</useless rant>
We [anaconda team] have actually been working on reducing the memory
requirements during installation. We have a number of changes in place now in
rawhide to help in this area and probably more coming.
- --
David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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