Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso problems - qemu-kvm too

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 13:02 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> As well as the other problems I reported, using this command:
> 
> qemu-kvm -m 512 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -cdrom 
> /backup/arch/Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso
> 
> hangs at the line:
> 
> "Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs. . . "

512MB is not enough memory for the F15 installer, you'll need more - say
640MB to be safe (measured value seems to be between 560 and 600).
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