minimum memory requirements

James Antill james.antill at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 14:48:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 06:21 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 11:47 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> 
> >         
> >         Gah, ignore me. I meant to install i386 earlier but wound up
> >         installing
> >         an x86_64 image which accounts for the difference. And the
> >         docs agree
> >         fully with my subsequent experience :)
> 
> 
> > Either way, I think you're right...the req's are kinda high...
> 
> Well, yes. I will do an i386 install later and compare. I don't really
> blame the *x86_64* figures for being so high, largely because any system
> featuring an x86_64 probably never had less than 256MB RAM and 512MB
> really isn't all that much to be expecting these days. It'd just be
> nicer if we could install in a virtual machine with less allocated.

 I had a feature request open to have the x86_64 installer actually be
a .i386 python/yum/anaconda (anaconda does not currently need more than
4GB of virtual space :). Which would make the installer size
requirements for x86_64 be the same:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437914

 Feel free to pile on the love to clumens :).

-- 
James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>
Red Hat
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