F17 anaconda 768MB limit

[Robby]

Well, for this test setup I chose "Software Development" and didn't change any of the packages, and let anaconda decide on the swap space to use. It created a swap partition of 512MB which seems enough for this to work. I wouldn't even choose a smaller size with this low amount of RAM because that would indeed be asking for trouble. For me it was more important to see how much RAM was actually needed, swap space I got plenty if needed, the hard drive is large enough. But I'm not sure if anaconda did infact use the swap space during the installation, I didn't switch to a console to check it as I didn't want to "disturb" it during the installation. I can always do a reinstall and check that it does (or does not).

Edit: I'll do a reinstall and check if anaconda uses it or not and report back here.

[Robby]

It does indeed make use of the available swap space, nice feature.

I went a little crazy and did an install of ALL packages, good for a total of 2761 packages. This unfortunately failed at the very end of the installation and displayed an unhandled exception dialog when attempting to run grub2-install, and when I switched to a console I also saw some errors when it attempted to run lokkit but that wasn't displayed in the unhandled exception dialog. The error in both cases was of course 'Cannot allocate memory'.

I then went on to reinstall the system yet again (again with all packages selected), this time instead of the default 512MB swap space anaconda created I made it 1024MB and that worked.
So, 256MB of RAM + 1024MB swap space is enough to have a successful installation and a bootable system afterwards.

[AdamW]

that's a good result, glad it worked out for you!