For the last four hours I was trying to install Fedora 18-64 on the computer and for an hour and a half I've been trying to do an install that hasn't worked; if was like experiencing Microsoft's "blue screen of death". Thankfully after pulling out the CD I had 17 installed.
And... um... this isn't exactly "public". On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John Reiser <jrei...@bitwagon.com> wrote: > On 01/21/2013 04:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > In addition, Anaconda's memory use has been skyrocketing for several > > releases, and the design changes in F18 have done nothing to address that > > issue. (In fact, they likely made it worse.) > > That claim is dead wrong, at least for graphical install of the default > Gnome > desktop from full install DVD or USB stick. I have installed > fedora-17-i386 > that way successfully using 383MB of RAM [1], and fedora-18-i386 using > 511MB > of RAM [2]. I believe that fedora-18 can be installed using less RAM, but > 511MB was what I tested. I believe that the enforced minimum for fedora-15 > and fedora-16 was 768MB RAM, which is considerably larger than my successes > with fedora-17 and fedora-18. > > I consider that you owe Anaconda a public apology. You might be able > to squirm out of it if you document your experiments meticulously, > including measurements. > > > References: > [1] > http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2012-May/msg00203.html > [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2013-January/113105.html > > -- > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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