Re: Upgrade with little RAM

[Jason Viloria <jnvilo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
> RAM,
> which I seldom use.
> (It is kept in a holiday location.)
>
> It is currently running Fedora-10,
> which probably shows when it was last used.
> I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
> and was a bit surprised to find that
> it started up OK, but then just hung.
>
> Is this likely to be just shortage of RAM?

Could be, particularly if you used the graphic installer interface.  If you can, try 'text mode'.

FWIW, I've always had problems installing Fedora from the LiveCD and, so, never use them for that purpose.  Try installing from a real install DVD using the text mode interface.  It uses less RAM.

B
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Same for me on an Thinkpad X40. Fedora 13 DVD works. I have 1gig ram though.

/Jason
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