From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 Description of problem: During the install process after partitioning, formatting and selecting components an unhandled exception occurred. A Red Hat tech first told me that this was because I was using the GUI install and a 45M RAM i386 needed to do a text install. Well, I get the same error with the GUI or text install. An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com.bugzilla/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda". line 694, in intf.run (id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text/py", line 446, in run 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=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", ;ine 680, in doInstall syslog.start (instPath, syslogname) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/syslogd.py", line 64, in start self.pid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using the boxed Red Hat Linux 8.0, install with GUI or text 2. The system is an old 386 Pentiom I 133MHz, 45M RAM and 2 IDE hard drives. 3. Enter info for a minimal install 4. Above error happens after formatting, when components are about to be copied? Additional info:
Duplicate == Bug 76123 Red Hat Linux 8.0 requires at least 64M of memory to install in graphical mode. Alternatively, you can attempt to install via Anaconda text mode which is more lenient on memory requirements. To do this, type "linux text" at the SYSLINUX prompt upon first bootup.
I got this error when I enter "linux text" at the boot prompt.
I think, one of the other duplicate bugs, had Michael Fulbright saying that 48M of RAM should be sufficient for a text mode install (so you're still a wee bit short). You can increase the amount of swap space allocated to 128M and try that. How much swap space are you allocating? Can you attach the Anaconda dump to this bug or Bug 76123?
We don't support installation of Red Hat Linux 8.0 on systems with less than 64 megs of ram.