On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:30 AM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This saved about 10MB, but the installer still runs out of ram and hangs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508465
ya, I knew thats gone now.
I've found live CD's take up a lot of ram, it doesnt really work. Aside from popping out the drive in another machine, I guess installing F10 and using yum to update to release might be the only real way, by the sounds of it.. its just too bad installers these days can't be more in line with OS requirements, thats just how it has to be I guess.
I have noticed that 256MB of ram just isn't enough anymore.. Theinstall 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
This saved about 10MB, but the installer still runs out of ram and hangs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508465
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.
ya, I knew thats gone now.
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.
I've found live CD's take up a lot of ram, it doesnt really work. Aside from popping out the drive in another machine, I guess installing F10 and using yum to update to release might be the only real way, by the sounds of it.. its just too bad installers these days can't be more in line with OS requirements, thats just how it has to be I guess.
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