On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:50:07AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > After a cumulative 15 man-hours wasted time, we've finally found out there are known > problems with installation on systems with useful amounts of RAM. We had a > successful install on a 64Mb router/firewall, but when we try to install on a 512Mb > system, the install kept coming up with CD read errors - on three separate sets of > CDs and three separate systems. I understand that anaconda has memory management > issues.
This sounds extremely dubous to me - what's your source for it? I've installed several RH9 systems lately with up to 3GB of RAM with no issues at all. If you have more than 4GB you have to use the bigmem kernel, but anything less than that should work OOTB just fine. The only RAM problem I had turned out to be a flaky stick, and we got the install working by explicitly limiting the kernel memory during the install - you might try something like 'linux install mem=64M' at the install prompt to see if that helps. Cheers, Gavin -- Open Fusion P/L - Open Source Business Solutions [ Linux - Perl - Apache ] ph: 02 9875 5032 fax: 02 9875 4317 web: http://www.openfusion.com.au mob: 0403 171712 - Fashion is a variable, but style is a constant - Programming Perl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
