From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: According to the release notes of Red Hat Linux 9, there is a minimum requirement of 64MB for a text mode installation of Red Hat Linux 9. The minimum requirements should be 32MB (which is what I have on my home router running Red Hat Linux 9). 32MB runs fine in text mode. Maybe it's better to add a sentence to the release notes, so that the memory requirements as listed below are mentioned : Memory: - Minimum for text-mode: 32MB - Recommended for text-mode: 64MB - Minimum for graphical: 128MB - Recommended for graphical: 192MB Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Checkout the release notes of Red Hat Linux 9 2. 3. Actual Results: Minimum = 64MB Expected Results: Minimum = 32MB Recommended = 64MB Additional info: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 29344 28932 412 0 12824 9184 -/+ buffers/cache: 6924 22420 Swap: 139096 704 138392 $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
The memory requirements in the release notes were set by the developers reponsible for Red Hat Linux, and were taken into consideration when quality assurance testing is done for the release. Often testing reveals that the requirements may work in some configurations and not others; in these instances the requirements are modified until they are found to work in all configurations. I suspect that in your case the system configuration and/or installation selections could be performed in only 32MB...