New Install of F15 on a Dell 8250

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> List,
> 
> I have been trying to do a fresh install of F15 i386 on a Dell 8250 with
> 256 mgs of memory.
> 
> I am able to boot from the DVD as well as the netiso CD without
> difficulty, but after picking the first option on the "Welcome to Fedora
> 15" screen to install a new system I am not been able to get past :
> 
> [  0.322901] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
> 
> I have tried an i386 DVD as well as the netinstall cd, and the procedure
> stops at the same point.  I have tested the memory and there is no
> failure.
> 
> Any ideas??

The minimum requirement is 512MB of RAM (see http://fedoraproject.org/).
With 256MB I suspect there isn't enough space even for the root image
(which lives in a RAM filesystem as the error message implies).

poc
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Thanks for the response.  looks like several of my oldies are not going to be upgradeable.

Greg