On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Kenni Lund <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > 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. > > I'm just curious, I've just checked the upstream system requirements > and 1GB seems to be the official memory requirement for EL6.
I can confirm the problem. Using the same VMWare WS guest that had been successfully used to install SL6.1 multiple times, I attempted to do the same installs (1GB RAM) except that partitioning was done manually with NO swap. The installation crashed after the 'package installation completed' step. I did this once with the "Desktop" type (1090 pkgs), another time with "Minimal" (244 pkgs). The error message was: Anaconda died after receiving signal 9. install exited abnormally [1/1] I have not checked if this is a known issue upstream. Akemi
