Installing Fedora-11 on reformatted hard drive

[ferapac]

Disc 1 loaded perfectly for about a minute installing Fedora-11 up to this problem:

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TCP reno registered
NEG: Registered protocol Family 1
checking if image is init ramFS ... <7> Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
it is
Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes ...

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I have 136 gigs available. Surprised by "out of memory and no killable processes" message. Please help.

thank you.

[Seve]

Hello:
Can you tell us more about the hardware you are using ?

i.e.

amount of RAM, CPU etc.

Seve

[Demz]

shouldnt this be moved to F11 alpha/beta discussion?

[Hlingler]

shouldnt this be moved to F11 alpha/beta discussion?Yes. Done.

V

[ferapac]

Version of DOS: MS-DOS 6.2.2

"upon booting":

Pri. Master Disk: LBA, UDMA66, 136 GB Parallel Ports: 378

Pri. Slave Disk: None SDRAM at row: 0

Sec. Master Disk: CD ROM, UDMA33

Sec. Slave Disk: None

"C:\DOS\MEM"

Memory type Total = used + free

conventional 639k 47k 592k

upper 0k 0k 0k

Reserved 0k 0k 0k

extended (XMS) 63,424k 2,159k 61,312k
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Total Memory 64,063k 2,159k 61,904k
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largest executable program size 592k (606,336 bytes)

largest free upper memory block 0k (0 bytes)

MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
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video adapter type: VGA

VESA OEM Name: Intel 810 (TM) graphics chip accelerated VGA BIOS

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Drive: Fixed Disk, CMOS type 47
Free space: 2039M
Total size: 2047 M

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I hope that this is sufficient information. If not, let me know. Thank you.

[zoinksbob]

Version of DOS: MS-DOS 6.2.2
I hope that this is sufficient information. If not, let me know. Thank you.

The "out of memory" message is talking about RAM, not disk space.

If this machine really only has 64mb of RAM, then it probably won't ever be able to run a current version of Fedora. But DOS could be lying about how much RAM it has, because DOS could only ever see 64mb, even if the machine really has more RAM than that. Can you figure out how much RAM it really has without asking DOS?
Try going to the BIOS and seeing if it will tell you there.

[ferapac]

Well ya !

My mistake !

What a dumbdumb

Am I dreaming or what ?

Obviously switching all kinds of hardware on my antique computers is a problem.

When you are broke and too smart, it can play all kinds of tricks on you !

So here: Let me try adding RAM on that old comp, and I will try again.

I dont know how long that will take, cuz I need to go to the com wrecking yard !

So, Please be patient.

I'll be back,

Thanks again,

ferapac

[Hlingler]

From http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html: 2.4.2.1. Hardware requirements for x86

In order to use specific features of Fedora 10 during or after installation, you may need to know details of other hardware components such as video and network cards.
2.4.2.1.1. Processor and memory

The following CPU specifications are stated in terms of Intel processors. Other processors, such as those from AMD, Cyrix, and VIA that are compatible with and equivalent to the following Intel processors, may also be used with Fedora.

Fedora 10 requires an Intel Pentium or better processor, and is optimized for Pentium 4 and later processors.

Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better

Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better

Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB

Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB

Recommended RAM for graphical: 256MiBV