Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 05/25/2011 06:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 03:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> Unfortunately that's not something likely to be seen by potential
>> newbies who are thinking of trying out this Fedora thing
> 
> I don't think we need to worry about newbies using the net
> installation.  They aren't likely to start with that.  Also the % of
> users using Fedora with less than 1 GB of RAM isn't that much according
> to Smolt stats.  In addition to that, 
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora also has been updated to document
> this.  If you have suggestions on where else to advertise,  feel free to
> pitch in. 

Preupgrade should know about the limitation and refuse to run the
upgrade if insufficient ram exists in the system instead of waiting for
the reboot where it just hangs with no explanation....

> Rahul

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