Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81457
Let anaconda check if sufficient memory is available
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:37 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: Refering to Bug 77832 (compare!): it's bad programming not to make anaconda check if sufficient memory is available. Especially, when a new version (here: 8.0) requires a decent increase in memory size to run. To simply let it crash like proposed in that bug is a no-brainer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade / install RH8.0 on machine with less than 64+MB RAM / 128 MB swap 2. 3. Actual Results: crash Expected Results: anaconda checks and advises Additional info:
I think one of the bugs related to this issue says that what you request is already in the latest version of Anaconda (available in Rawhide). I would imagine that the patch is old enough that Phoebe (8.0.92) specifies that it is unable to install/upgrade in graphical mode with that much memory. This memory stipulation will probably be a good thing to add to the release notes of the distribution (will add bug enhancement request..)
It's already specified on the box and in the system requirements in the documentation. We've changed some of our limits on when we use graphical mode and when we turn on swap early, etc to help the problems of low ram installations.