Bug 57729 – minimum RAM requirement

Bug 57729 - minimum RAM requirement

Summary:	minimum RAM requirement

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Reported:	2001-12-20 06:44 EST by Giuseppe Raimondi
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-01-15 16:26:55 EST
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Description Giuseppe Raimondi 2001-12-20 06:44:52 EST

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

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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 16:52:34 EST

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 05:00:01 EST

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 16:26:49 EST

Please check the md5sum of the install media.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2002-01-26 22:38:14 EST

Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.

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