On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 09:03 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:25:53PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:04:31AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > Do these older/limited machines do anything better now than they did in > > > > the 2.4 kernel days? > > > > > > Good luck trying to get the installer to run on anything less than 512MB these days. > > > > Don't bother: either > > > > - Use an existing disk image and upgrade it (works in 128MB) > > Part of the selinux-policy-targeted upgrade does something whih > munches through stupid amounts of memory. On any box I've tried > this on with <512MB, the oom killer kicks in, and then I've been > left with the mess of a half upgraded box, with lots of rpms > listed twice in the rpmdb. So it's not an install, its an upgrade? I'm just asking b/c that normally changes the set of things rpm has to do wrt file comparisons and checking. Upgrades will probably take more memory than installs. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
