On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:07 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:44 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > To be fair, they probably didn't have a desktop to carry along for the > > ride. But then I guess I could counter that the problem here is I > > couldn't even run the installer with less than 384MB RAM. I dropped it > > down to 256MB after install but then had to bump it back up again - and > > I expect the first time I run yum I'll want to put it back to 512MB. > > > > I had been trying to reduce VM memory sizes to run more at once... > > You haven't yet stated your install type and method, which can make a > huge difference. Ah, this was rawhide done from a boot.iso image. > Graphical install type, booted from just vmlinuz and initrd.img and > subsequently downloading stage2 from the network is going to have > a /much/ higher memory footprint than if you were to boot from boot.iso > (which has stage2 on it), do a text mode install from whatever method. True, I know I could just do a text mode install. > You see, if you have to download stage2, you're downloading it to memory > based filesystem and losing that much memory just to the storage of the > file. I'm not sure that's the case any more though. There used to be a stage1 and a stage2 image for Anaconda, but now I think it's all a live image within that 100+ MB boot.iso file, without a separate download stage2. Perhaps I'll do another install later and switch to the console (it's cool that there's a usable shell early on now too) to check tmpfs. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
