On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 14:06 -0400, Paul Whalen wrote:
I've been successful installing Rawhide on the Wandboard and
Cubietruck
using the pxe boot images copied to microsd and doing a net install.
Works great and is much more flexible than the images.
The Beaglebones do not seem to have enough ram for anaconda to run, and
the Pandaboard currently has an issue with the network- drops to dracut
when trying to pull down some files over the network at the beginning
of the installation.
The Trimslice has not yet been the beneficiary of Dennis's U-Boot work, but
once that is added it should also work with an install type image.
Thanks (to you and Dennis, for both replies), it's good to hear about
the anaconda work. Available RAM is probably the outstanding concern,
then.
I do check on installs with low RAM periodically. Last time I checked,
IIRC, a DVD text install with 384MB was possible. I don't recall if a
text network install with 384MB was possible. Graphical DVD install with
512MB worked (just barely); graphical network install didn't. All
scenarios assume some swap space is made available at the partitioning
step. (Network installs use more RAM because they have to set up repos
and download repo metadata before any swap space is available).
I suspect if we set a cut-off at 512MB we might be able to get away with
'installer images only' for F21. If we want to support hardware with
less than 512MB (or even more less than 384MB) it's going to be very
difficult, I think, but we could ask anaconda folks if there's any
possibility.
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