->fc6: Pkg Installation - "may take several minutes" - 36 hours later!!

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:01 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Yes, next time do a clean install! Your system has too little memory
> > installed. You need at least 256 MB, preferably more.
> 
> Which is a ridiculous state of affairs IMHO. What if the user only wants a 
> light desktop system, or a headless server. For these things 128M should be 
> fine. Not exactly nippy but would run OK.
> 
> As things stand at the moment, the standard anaconda installer requires as 
> much memory as a full gnome/kde desktop. Is it just me me thinks this is just 
> a tad silly.
> 
> There are many desktops out there that run fine with 128M, XFCe or fvwm for 
> instance. XFCE is even part of extras. So an installer that requires more ram 
> that the system it is installing.... go figure.
> 
> Chris
> 
It is silly but that is the way it is. It reminds me that I just saw
"Showstoppers", the book about the development of WinNT. An argument
arose between Bill Gates and David Carver (the developer). Gates said it
should run in 1M of ram ; Carver held out for 8M. 
Now we have Vista that takes 1G. That's progress?
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