On 05/16/2012 08:31 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> On 05/15/2012 11:46 AM, John Reiser wrote:
>> I successfully installed default Graphical Desktop of Fedora-17-Final.TC5-i386
>> to an old laptop which has only 383MB RAM.
>
> Is there any chance you can test on an x86_64 machine? They typically have a
> noticably higher memory requirement because python is pretty pointer-heavy.
x86_64 also succeeds using 383 MB RAM. Full install took 19 minutes using
3.3GHz Core-i5 with DDR3 and 7200rpm SATA3 (6Gbit/s) harddrive.
SwapTotal minus SwapFree [/proc/meminfo] rose to 365 MB.
Booting was from physical DVD of Fedora-17-Final.RC1-x86_64-DVD.iso, then
editing the boot command line to
root=live:CDLABEL=LIVE mem=383m nomemcheck
where LIVE was a 4GB USB2.0 flash drive that was converted from the .iso
by livecd-iso-to-disk, and with Packages and repodata also copied from
.iso to flash. MemTotal revealed that "mem=383m" had been obeyed.
Removing /run/initramfs/lib/{modules,firmware} increased MemFree at rd.break
to 201864 kB
from 163828 kB
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more +38036 kB (23% increase from 163838 kB)
although this was not used during the timing run.
The above success was using non-EFI, non-GPT all the way. I had trouble
with EFI booting and with attempting to use an existing GPT layout (even
from non-EFI boot), but some of that may have been my own errors.
Perhaps there is time for methodical reconstruction of those problems...
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