From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: GUI installer works fine until actual package installation, then before any packages install I get an OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory. Tried to install using manual mem=XXM but errored out in same place. Thought it was a FAT32 problem, blew away partition on drive, same result. Checked CD's for file defects and all came back without error. Autodiscovery of components works without problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from CD. 2. Took defaults on everything 3. Exception error on beginning of package installation. Actual Results: Received an exception error: "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory" Expected Results: Installation should have continued. Additional info: The computer is a Compaq Presario 2240, 48MB RAM and 2GB hard disk. File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 786, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext () File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc=applyfunc, self.bindArgs(args)) File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in turnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File "usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.vgactivate() File "usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 54, in vgactivate searchPath=1) File "usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 66, in execWithRedirect childpid=os.fork () OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
GUI installs probably don't work without 64 megs of RAM these days -- we don't even technically support installs with < 64 megs of RAM, but a text-mode NFS or CD-ROM install should work fine with 48.
this is a duplicate of 74847
This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 76123. The problem is that there is not enough memory to process the transactions that are to be executed by the installer. Anaconda, in GUI mode, requires at least 64M+ of memory and 128M of swap. You can alternatively attempt to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 in text mode by specifying "linux text" at the SYSLINUX prompt upon first boot. Anaconda, in text mode, is more lenient on memory resources.