John Reiser wrote: > On 01/08/2013 04:47 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> i'm trying install f18 on older i686 machine (1.8GHz P4 CPU/512 MB >> RAM/160 GB HDD/Radeon 9000 64MB graphics), doing NFS graphical >> installation with XFCE desktop (and several add-ons groups). >> Installation started from installation CD (images/boot.iso image), >> anaconda 18.37.8. Install CD Media check is fine. >> Machine always stop respond in "Checking software dependencies..." >> phase; CD-ROM permanently rotate and it's all. >> >> I suspect this may be caused by insufficient RAM ... > > If you have concerns about RAM, then your first attempt should be > with no add-on groups. Or, if you do try add-ons but run into trouble > then you should try again without the add-ons. > > I just tried Fedora-18-Final-RC2-i386-DVD after converting to USB2,0 > using livecd-iso-to-disk. My 1.6GHz machine has 1GB RAM, but I restricted > the kernel to 511MB by appending " mem=511m" to the end of the kernel > command line [note the lower-case 'm'.] Switching to VT2 after boot > [type Ctrl-Alt-F2] then "cat /proc/meminfo" showed "MemTotal: 507984 kB", > so I was running as if only 511MB of RAM. The graphics card is > ATI 9250 (9200 PRO) with 128MB. [Switch back Ctrl-Alt-F6 for graphics.] > > I had no trouble "Checking software dependencies" with either the default > Gnome3 desktop, or after changing to Xfce desktop. /proc/meminfo showed: > MemFree: 11180 kB > Buffers: 32664 kB > Cached: 269504 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > Committed_AS: 483308 kB > and "ps alx | grep anac" showed anaconda with VSZ=219M and RSS=128M. > I did not continue with actual installation because I didn't want > my existing boot configuration (grub1, BIOS drives swapped, ...) clobbered. > I had 2GB of swap space configured by manual partitioning, re-using > an existing linux-swap(v1) partition; but note that no swap had been > used yet because SwapTotal: 0 kB. > > So, I would say that 511MB is enough to start actual package installation > for default Xfce desktop. [Last spring I installed Fedora 17 default > Gnome3 desktop complete from USB2.0 using 383MB@700MHz and kernel boot > parameter " nomemcheck". It took 80 minutes versus 17 minutes > on my 8GB@3GHz machine. I estimate DVD would have taken around > 2.5 hours due to repeated spin-up and paging from squashfs on DVD.] It seems You are right, I now tried install Xfce with 512 MB RAM and without any add-ons and this work. But installation with add-ons and 1GB RAM had only ~ 1800 packages, which isn't too - on previous releases I routinely had installations with 3000-3500 RPM packages. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
