On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/29/2013, Pete Travis wrote: > >> I've been trying to figure out the minimum system requirements for Fedora - >> basic stuff like CPU, memory, storage - and I don't know where to look. As I >> understand it, anaconda can require more memory than the final running system, >> so I thought I'd start here ( I did notice this improved a lot with the last >> release, nice work!) >> >> Anything you can do to answer the question or point me in the right direction, >> would be a big help. I made a half-hearted effort to find a source for it when >> preparing the Release Notes for F18, had no success, and so shipped release >> notes without the information. I'd rather not do that again, and I'm not >> comfortable coming up with the figures independently. > > Um, you're being more than a little lazy. > > I hold the modern record (Fedora 17 and later) of successful install in 383MB RAM > (using the default Anaconda graphical install of the default graphical desktop) > on both i686 and x86_64. See my post "successful install using 383MB RAM" > to this mailing list on 05/15/2012 and the ensuing thread, and a separate > thread of 09/29/2012. On my ancient laptop 383MB is the total RAM, > but you can set the limit arbitrarily for any machine by using " mem=NNNm " > on the kernel boot command line. > > Besides, it isn't that hard to try it yourself. Use a USB2.0 flash memory device, > HAVE A SWAP PARTITION, and it will take significantly less than two hours. And if > you install from a Fedora Live media "spin" instead of from DVD, then it takes > even less time. > > -- > Hey John, If the only way to come up with the official figures is for me to test installations myself, so be it. I have access to enough old hardware to come up with reasonable results, and spinning up kickstarted installations that would iterate through reducing values of "mem=NNNm" would probably give results in short order. I do recall reading the postings you mention, but I'm reluctant to recommend that kind of deployment to our users. I am making a distinction between minimal and recommended requirements, and while the former would be relatively easy to figure out, the recommended figure is more subjective. If I have to come up with the numbers myself, I'll probably skip all that and simply recommend, say, a dual core >1GHz CPU with at least 1.5GB of ram and 20GB of available disk space; that seems like a reasonable baseline. I don't want to set an expectation of support without input from the developers of the product that I'm documenting, so I'm writing here for guidance. --Pete _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
