Bug 57729

Summary: minimum RAM requirement
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Giuseppe Raimondi <raimondi>
Component: installerAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Giuseppe Raimondi 2001-12-20 11:44:52 UTC 
Description of Problem:
on the 7.2 box is stated a minimum of 32 MB is required for a text install,
but this is not enough

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start installation
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
Some rpms are reported to be faulty. this happens randomly, i.e. it's not
always the same rpm making problems. I used original cds.
it let's you go on with installation, but a lot of things won't work

Expected Results:
install 7.2

Additional Information:
it was on an old compaq deskpro with 32 MB ram.
I tried to install in text mode. I had something like 100-150MB swap.
My guess is the machine was just swapping too much.
I have a adaptec aic7xxx scsi controller with attached cdrom and hdd.
upgrading to 256MB installed from same cds with no problems.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-02 21:52:34 UTC 
We've done both installs and upgrades on systems with 32 megs; are you sure
you're not having problems reading the media (looking in /tmp/install.log from
tty2 could be handy to determine that)
Comment 2 Giuseppe Raimondi 2002-01-10 10:00:01 UTC 
the machine was just not reacting anymore, so I was not able to switch console.
as long the installation was proceding I checked in all the VC, but I couldn't
find anything too strange
Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-01-15 21:26:49 UTC 
Please check the md5sum of the install media.
Comment 4 Brent Fox 2002-01-27 03:38:14 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.