>> >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. >From memory the peak was when the selinux policies were being applied/installed and those numbers are about right from my memory of the peak but I believe there's been work to reduce the high water mark although, like you, I have no idea what the current figures are. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
