I have noticed that 256MB of ram just isn't enough anymore.. The install dies early in the process with an OOM error and kills X. [snip]
You can reclaim about 0.5% of RAM by booting with the kernel commandline parameter "cgroup_disable=memory". That's something, but not a lot, and was ridiculed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515310 Using text mode was the previous fallback. However features have been removed from text mode (such as "Custom configuration" of partitions), and there is not much will to keep text and graphical modes comparable. It seems to me that 384MB RAM is the new minimum for graphical install. I have an old laptop with only that much. Fedora 11 installs, and runs after fixing X11: bz#493441. Does it work for you to boot a LiveCD then install from that? Or, use a big machine to install to a USB flash drive, then copy the flash drive to disk on the small machine using LiveCD, rescue mode, and/or network. For the truly determined: boot rescue mode, partition the disks via fdisk or parted, format the partitions, export the partitions via NFS, use another machine of the same $ARCH to perform an over-the- network install via rpm with --root, --dbpath, and --aid parameters. Install the kernel and enough to get openssh-server and yum. Then boot the system, and use yum (via ssh) to install the rest. -- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
