On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:31:55 -0700 John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How much memory will anaconda require to install Fedora 16? > > Anaconda requires 768MB, and more (>=1GB) if there is no swap partition. It is not just Anaconda. F15 GA kernel would not even uncompress initramfs on anything below 1GB. On VM hosts, I modify the VMs with virsh to have 1GB, then scale them down after installation. This is getting difficult to manage, I have to say. My almost brand new Red Hat corporate T400 only has 2GB, and I have a stack of almost good enough boxes. In the past we always felt free to push obsolete hardware over to BSD. Remember NPTL? CMOV? But now I have a feeling that we may be outstripping the speed of improvement in common hardware. Or maybe I need a better computer. I'm wondering what everyone's feeling is about it. I saw a tweet (by Mairin, I think) "the 12GB is a life-changing experience". Well, if that's our new standard platform, then sure, no sense to optimize for 1GB. -- Pete -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
