Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81485
[RFE] Release Notes should specify system requirements (and quirks)
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030102 Description of problem: I just perused the release notes to see if the system requirements were listed - they were not. Some bugs filed in Bugzilla are due to insufficient hardware requirements to run or install Red Hat Linux 8.0. For example, Bug 76123 deals with the "Cannot allocate memory" error generated by Anaconda in GUI mode when the machine has 64M or less of memory and less than 128M of swap. Another example is a bug that was filed by a person using a Cyrix 5x86 processor (which has nothing but a glorified 80486 core) - Anaconda selected the wrong kernel to boot on that machine. These quirks and requirements should be listed at the top of the release notes so that developers can refer people to Resolution == OLDASDIRTHARDWARE when they are unable to install a 2002 distribution on a 1993 machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description Actual Results: see description Expected Results: see description Additional info:
You raise a good point. Future release notes will have a section outlining CPU, disk, and RAM requirements.