On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Kenni Lund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is it expected behaviour that SL6.1 requires more than 1GB of RAM to > > install when using anaconda for the install? I've just had the > > installer crash on me twice due to low memory, when I had 1024MB > > dedicated to the VM. I didn't create any swap partition when I did the > > partition layout within the installer, so if Anaconda expects to use > > such swap partition for the install, that could explain the issue. > > Perhaps not, but our favorite upstream vendor's default setups do > create a swap partition, by default. While RAM is not the same thing > as swap and I'm having good success now with VM's that have 1 Gig of > RAM, I use some swap space. ignoring thoste standards is something you > do at your own peril, both for installation and for operations.
I didn't try without swap space, but SL 6.1 even installs fine with 512MB memory, although it then automatically falls back to text mode install. -- -- Jos Vos <[email protected]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
