> I believe that fedora-18 can be installed using less [than 511MB] RAM, ... Yes. I just successfully completed a default install of Gnome3 desktop from Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD,iso (converted to USB2.0 using livecd-iso-to-disk) using only the additional kernel boot parameters " mem=383m nomemcheck". "mem=383m" tells the kernel to use only 383MB of RAM; "nomemcheck" tells anaconda to omit the test for a minimum 512MB of RAM. The installed system boots and functions correctly. Using /proc/meminfo I verified that only 383MB of RAM was being used. /usr/bin/top confirmed this, and also showed swap usage that peaked at about 337MB; so the "swap-free" size of anaconda-18.37.11 for this install is about 383MB + 337MB = 720MB. Total install time was less than 14 minutes using 3.3GHz Intel Core-i5 and SATA-2 3Gbit/s 7200RPM harddrive, so the swapping had only small impact on the duration of the install. I await documentation of claims that anaconda RAM requirements have been "skyrocketing" over the last several releases. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
