Upgrade with little RAM

[Jason Viloria]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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.
>
> B
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Same for me on an Thinkpad X40. Fedora 13 DVD works. I have 1gig ram though.

/Jason
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