Bug 784538

Summary:	Net install image is to big for 192MB RAM machine
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mario Tokos <mti>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, iarlyy, jonathan, lnykryn, nhosoi, nkinder, notting, plautrba, rmeggins, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Mario Tokos 2012-01-25 10:12:40 UTC

Description of problem:
When I try install Fedora 16 from netinstall CD, my PC(with 192MB RAM, PIII 600MHz- Coppermine) ends with message that the initrd.img is too big.
Ubuntu netinstall image have only text verion, but it's very fast and small 25MB (entire iso). Instalation from live CD is realy imposible  regarding very slow running - I can't select install option until 30minutes after start.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 16 netinstall image

How reproducible:
Use netinstall CD and try install on 192MB RAM machine, intel PIII 600MHz - Coppermine ,

  
Actual results:
I can't  install Fedora linux on my old PC with 192MB RAM.


Expected results:
Make smaler initrd.image and make smaller CD image like UBUNTU cca 25MB(all data), not like FEDORA 250MB...

Comment 1 Lukáš Nykrýn 2012-01-25 10:55:19 UTC

According to Release Notes 
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_16.html#sect-Release_Notes-Hardware_Overview
you need 768 MB of ram to run Fedora. 
And even if we make smaller initrd, I think that fedora on this system would be quite unusable.