User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 FC11 Hard Drive installation failed after select partition and directory hold image.If ram 256M ,it can install,but 214M failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.copy iso file ,vmlinuz ,initrd.img and images/install.img to vfat partition 2.boot from it by grub 3.choose hard drive install 4.choose partition and directory hold image Actual Results: could not find iso file and install.img(something like this) Expected Results: anaconda run and install began 1.my pc memory :214M and cpu:mobile AMD Athlon(tm)XP 1800+ F10 ok ,from F11 ,could not install from hard drive 2.Tian Shixiong(tiansworld) took a test,with his test,256M could install,but 214M failed ,same situation with me.
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.