F14->F15 preupgrade fails

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:32 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> > Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15
>> > are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
>>
>> Geez, either is too much.  How inefficient is the programming to require
>> that much?
>
> This is what the initial ram disk needs to load an entire basic root
> partition and bootstrap the installation. It doesn't mean it needs that
> much to run the system once installed.

You can indeed reduce memory once the system has been installed; but,
you first need to be able to install. How do you install Fedora 15 if
your system has less than 768MB of RAM?

> poc