Installation Quick Start Guide

[David Nalley]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Nathan Thomas
<nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/04/10 15:21, David Nalley wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Nathan Thomas
>> <nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> I think you've already updated the requirements section already, but when
>>> updating the Live Image guide I gave a minimum RAM of 1GB, as per this bug:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474368.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for tracking that down! - I just updated the reference in IQSG.
>>
>> I am really shocked that we would so dramatically increase the memory
>> requirement, seems like we said 384 for F12, so that's a big change.
>>
>
> The bug in question refers to F10. 384MB was suggested as the absolute
> minimum just to get the F10 live image to boot (512MB for x86_64), so I
> guess for an acceptable user experience you'd be looking at more than
> that - and I'm guessing we've got heavier on the RAM since F10?
>
> Nathan


Wow -  the RN for F12 specified 192 for x86 and 256 for x86_64
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/index.html#sect-Release_Notes-Hardware_Requirements
Wonder how we got so far out of what - and moreover that people didn't
complain about the error.