I have seen this occur with RHEL as well. This was for something as simple as building a server with a custom kickstart and no GUI involved in the build. The workaround we did was to crank memory up to 2gb, build the VM, then set its memory back down to 1gb after system was built. Runs fine that way. Just the ks/anaconda wasn't happy with 1gb of mem.
Les From: "Kenni Lund" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:30:56 AM Subject: Unable to install SL6.1 with only 1GB of RAM? 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. Best regards Kenni
