On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 10:44 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:31 +0100, > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >that you can do successfully complete a graphical DVD default package > >install with 512MB of RAM, or a text network default package install. I > >believe a text install may even work in 384MB, though I don't absolutely > >remember, and you may have to pass the parameter that disable's > >anaconda's RAM check to try it. Graphical network installs require more > >than 512MB - network installs need extra RAM before swap space comes > >online, as they go out and get package lists. Actually you could > >probably do an ugly hack around that by passing an intentionally invalid > >repo=, going through the storage spoke, and *then* setting the correct > >repo interactively, but that'd be hideous. > > I tried doing an F20 live install on a 512 MB machine and wasn't able to get it > to work. There was no swap drive available though. The install configuration > was extremely slow and seemed to have some of the subparts terminate. I never > got to the part where I could start the install transaction. At some point > I might try using an install image on the machine and see if that works > better. The above was written with the assumption some swap space would be available, yeah. Once anaconda gets into package installation, memory consumption increases notably, but at that point, swap space is available if any has been configured during partitioning, so effective available memory is also greater. Last time I ran the numbers - which are on my blog somewhere - overall peak memory consumption (RAM plus swap) during a typical DVD install was, IIRC, somewhere around 750MB. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
