Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. I've installed CentOS 5.3 on a Pentium III (500 mhz) with 384 Meg o

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread nate
Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. 5.2 is quite slow on low memory during installation as well, I run many VMs with 64 or 96MB of memory

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > What do you consider to be really slow? One thing I've def. Learned with > installing Linux, windows, OSX, anything that has a click-click-click > install procedure, what ever the bar says, (70% complete or 20 mins > left, depending on whose OS), it'

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Jerry Geis > Sent: 22 September 2009 13:19 > To: CentOS ML > Subject: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow > > I was installing centos 5.3

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. "Minimum requirements" and "Usable system speed" aren't necessarily

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Niki Kovacs
Jerry Geis a écrit : > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? 512M for the full-blown installer, 128 MB for the NCurses version. I have some low-end machines with just that much RAM, running 5.3 on them. Works fine. Niki ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with > 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down > about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. > I tried restart the install a cou

[CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry Geis
I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70% the slow down. I t