Upgrade with little RAM

Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 21 16:23:58 UTC 2010


--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
> RAM,
> which I seldom use.
> (It is kept in a holiday location.)
> 
> It is currently running Fedora-10,
> which probably shows when it was last used.
> I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
> and was a bit surprised to find that
> it started up OK, but then just hung.
> 
> Is this likely to be just shortage of RAM?

Could be, particularly if you used the graphic installer interface.  If you can, try 'text mode'.

FWIW, I've always had problems installing Fedora from the LiveCD and, so, never use them for that purpose.  Try installing from a real install DVD using the text mode interface.  It uses less RAM.

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