Hello,
1 GB should be enough to at least do the basic SL7 installation.
Several attempts were made on a 1GB (RAM) machine, which failed. The symptoms
were: black screen (first time, after coming back from "installation
coffee"), then more precisely watching a slowdown during the installation of
LibreOffice until screen blocked and mouse pointer still moving, finally with
the "minimal" (probably what you call "basic") installation it crashed in
another package install.
Things went smoothly on 2GB RAM machine then.
Back to the original thread:
I see. I think these are sufficiently known and understood in this case. At
least there was no difference noticed in the unsuccessfull compared to the
successful installation.
I assume you mean "not other differenice than the disk partitioning
was noticed".
Yes, only observations reported.
But I think that is clear now.
And above, you said "fdisk", which is vary much not the same as gparted?
My (misleading) convention is fdisk(8) for exactly the command, while "fdisk"
is "something to partition a disk on Lin or Win".
Was a label needed and added?
Will have to ask (Monday).
And the answer is no, unless [g]parted(8) does it implicetely (like erase by
fill with whitespace).
My strong working theory is that you've encountered a variant of the LVM
problems I mentioned.
This is plausible indeed. However it may take a while to fall exactly in the
same case of proplematic previous LVM on a recycled disk. If the
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<newdisk> [...]
helps, I think it should be made by the installer just before
erasing/formatting a disk, shouldn't it? (I guess, this suggestion might have
to go to RedHat. But how?)
Cheers
Dirk
