Thank you!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Andre Robatino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andre@bwh.harvard.edu">andre@bwh.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Fedora 12 graphical installer requires at least 384M of RAM. If you<br>
have less, it automatically does a minimal text-based install (a small<br>
fixed set of packages without offering options for additional ones)<br>
which is what you got. The confusion regarding the install discs saying<br>
i386 is common. The i386 refers to the basearch (which includes<br>
subarches i386, i486, i586, i686). F12 requires the i686 subarch. The<br>
Live images are labeled i686, but the Install images are labeled i386,<br>
even though the supported hardware is exactly the same. Many people<br>
including myself have asked for the Install images to be labeled i686 as<br>
well in order to avoid exactly this kind of user confusion. The<br>
developers have a general rule, however, that images should be labeled<br>
by basearch instead of subarch (not a requirement, obviously, since the<br>
Live images don't follow it). I believe (someone correct me if I'm<br>
wrong?) the purpose was to avoid the extra work of changing the image<br>
name when the subarch changes. If that's true, it doesn't apply here,<br>
since this particular subarch will never change again (there will never<br>
be an i786) so i686 is now and always will be the only subarch that F12<br>
and above ever support.<br>
<br>
In any case, even if there's some benefit to using i386 in the name<br>
during development, it would be trivial to change it to i686 at release<br>
time.<br>
<br>
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