Ok, i was able to launch vnc on the affected laptop and in kvm. I opened (Bug 962231) That bug covers only the spurious not enough memory, i have not yet opened a bug-report for the 535/512 minimum ram issue. Cheers. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Reartes Guillermo <rtguille@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried with a KVM Guest: > > * With 512mb anaconda graphical starts, but text vnc does not (vnc does not > start with the same error) > > * With 450mb anaconda graphical starts. > :-) well, it just 450mb, i really expected anaconda to refuse to run with > such a small ramsize. > > * With 535mb anaconda text mode will ask for vnc and vnc works ok. (X86_64 > F19b TC3) > * With 528mb anaconda text mode will ask for vnc and vnc works ok. (i386 > F19b TC3) > > So, that is why i could not launch text mode + vnc on my 512mb netbook, > since the current > minimum ramsize for i386 arch is 528mb. I can launch graphical, but it does > not work due > to screen resolution (already reported and not a priority), so i normally > need to use vnc. > > From: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options?rd=Anaconda/Options > The boot parameter 'nomemcheck' does not work or was removed. > > Does text + vnc really consume more ram that graphical? > > Cheers. > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Reartes Guillermo <rtguille@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Yes, it an onboard intel vga, no options (i do believe that is >> automatically assigned). >> >> Cheers. >> >> >> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> > anaconda refuses to launch vnc for F19: >>> > >>> > "Not asking for VNC because current memory (500184) < MIN_GUI_RAM >>> > (524288)" >>> > >>> > Is it intended or should i file a bug-report for this? >>> > The netbook has a 512mb ram stick, and since F18 could be installed via >>> > vnc, i expected the same for F19. Now i am shot of 24mb ram approx. >>> >>> Hmm, is something like your video card perhaps stealing memory from you? >>> >>> - Chris >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Anaconda-devel-list mailing list >>> Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
