> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:47:37PM -0500, David Lehman wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:13 -0700, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> > I have tried installing Fedora 16 alpha (i386 version) on VMWare >> player >> > and it dies starting up the installer. >> > >> > It also dies trying to install on my CTL 2GO pad. (Atom based tablet.) >> >> Same type of death as the vmware? >> >> > >> > Any ideas why? >> >> If you have less than 768M of memory you could have problems unpacking >> the initrd and/or starting the installer. > > 768 MB!!! > > When I want to stuff as many VMs onto a virtual machine as possible, > RAM usage really matters. Particularly since RAM is currently cheap > up to about 8 GB but becomes much more expensive above that (ie. up to > about 6 VMs with all the overhead). > > I can still run Debian VMs in 128 MB and do useful stuff with them > like light dynamic web serving.
In both cases I had 2 gigs of ram. Should not be a memory issue. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
