fedora_requires_release_note requested: [Bug 972547] Anaconda hangs and crashes on netinstall on a system with 512MB of RAM allocated

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

Product: Fedora
Version: 19
Component: anaconda

Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt; has asked  for
fedora_requires_release_note:
Bug 972547: Anaconda hangs and crashes on netinstall on a system with 512MB of
RAM allocated
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972547


------- Additional Comments from Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;
Discussed at 2013-06-10 blocker review meeting:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2013-06-10/f19fina...
ker-review-4.2013-06-10-16.01.log.txt . Agreed that this is not accepted as a
blocker. The 512MB listing in the documentation and hard floors in anaconda
code (we can make the minimum for text and graphical different if we choose to)
is not a guarantee that any installation attempt with that much RAM will work,
but an absolute low-end on what amount of memory is needed before _any_ install
attempt can reasonably be expected to work. As a graphical DVD install works
with 512MB of system RAM (assuming swap is made available during partitioning),
it doesn't seem a good idea to bump the hard floor above that number.

However, I'm setting the release notes flag so that if the 512MB graphical net
install failure isn't fixed prior to release, it can be documented: roughly "We
know graphical network install with 512MB of system RAM is likely to fail, use
text mode if you want to do a network install or DVD or live image if you want
to do a graphical install, or get more RAM".