Bug 541502
| Summary: | Minimum Memory about 256M required for Hard Drive installation | |||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | ryanyee <godyee> | |
| Component: | install-guide | Assignee: | Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled> | |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled> | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | devel | CC: | eric, pbokoc, rhe | |
| Target Milestone: | --- | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | i386 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
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| : | 541653 553107 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-09-17 09:56:44 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 541653, 553107 | |||
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Description
ryanyee
2009-11-26 06:01:57 UTC
I installed f12(constantine) i386 on kvm and experienced the same. Hard drive installation failed for 212M memory(error occurred when searching the install.img) but succeeded for 256M memory. The release notes say the minimum required memory is 192M, but it's not possible at least using this installation method. Thanks Ryanyee and He Rui I've also confirmed this result (in a virtual machine). Clumens, is the minimum memory required for a HD installation set somewhere? And do other installation methods also have minimum memory requirements in excess of the 128 MB set as an absolute minimum in isys/isys.h? (I guess yes...) Cheers Ruediger (In reply to comment #2) > Thanks Ryanyee and He Rui > > I've also confirmed this result (in a virtual machine). > > Clumens, is the minimum memory required for a HD installation set somewhere? They're defined in isys/isys.h: http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=blob;f=isys/isys.h 23 #define MIN_RAM 131072 24 #define MIN_GUI_RAM 393216 25 #define EARLY_SWAP_RAM 524288 We don't really have method-specific memory limits, so there's nothing defined specifically for a hard drive install. > And do other installation methods also have minimum memory requirements in > excess of the 128 MB set as an absolute minimum in isys/isys.h? (I guess > yes...) The reason there are problems here is because the install.img ends up in memory, and that consumes a lot of space. We've had patches since F12 to help this, though. Thanks Chris; I've updated the guide to warn users that installing from Hard Drive or network locations requires extra RAM to accomodate the image file: Installation requires 137 MB of RAM ------------------------------------ If your system has less than 137 MB of RAM, installation will not continue. Furthermore, installation from a hard drive or a network location requires an image of stage 2 of the installation program (installer.img) to be stored in memory. This additional requirement increases the minimum RAM required to 243 MB for these installation methods. ------------------------------------- en-US/beginninginstallation.xml | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) New commits: commit 7cd1413a8e8b79005aa5a38566da3b5a8806e181 Author: Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann> Date: Thu Jan 7 16:08:33 2010 +1000 Removing myself for these bug components as I'm either no longer involved in that aspect of the project, or no longer care to watch this particular bug. Sorry if you are caught in a maelstrom of bug changes as a result! This has been fixed a long time ago and the fixed text has been dropped in recent versions, rendering this bug pretty much moot. Closing. |