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    F16 install with 512Mb?

    Like the title says: is there a way to install F16 with only 512Mb?

    I am booting via pxe, with the full F16 DVD available via NFS. The vmlinuz and initrd images copied over by tftp are from that DVD.

    The boot works fine, and I get to anaconda, which puts up a text screen box saying I need 768Mb. I have read several other posts that for people using the liveCD install, they can change an anacoda file to skip the memory check (or set the memory limit to 0). But doing the install from the full DVD, I don't see how to do that.

    Is there a boot line parameter that I can put in the default.cfg file, on the kernel line, to do something like the above? Or is there some other method I can try?


    Any help greatly appreciated.

    TIA

    ken

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    Well, that is not a lot of RAM, and Fedora will be slow, very slow. But, it should run, based on my own experiences. I remember running Fedora 6 on 256 MB of RAM. Memory is fairly cheap these days, I have a bunch of sticks laying around here, DIMM, and DDR2. I bought a 1 Gb stick of DDR3 Kingston not long ago for $24.

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    If you are really adventurous, anaconda on Fedora 17 TC3 (and hence F17) needs only 512 MB RAM. But, it has host of other problems.

    So, I would recommend adding more RAM too.

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    Quote Originally Posted by nonamedotc
    If you are really adventurous, anaconda on Fedora 17 TC3 (and hence F17) needs only 512 MB RAM. But, it has host of other problems.

    So, I would recommend adding more RAM too.
    The problem is that I am running this on older machines (10+ years) that have a max of 512Mb RAM. F14 ran well on them - I use them mostly as servers with not a lot of graphics involved. Since F14 is EOL'd, I wanted to try to upgrade.

    My understanding, after reading several posts, was that F16 would run well on 512Mb (especially LXDE), but it was anaconda complaining about the memory limit.

    So, back to the original question: How do I get F16 to install with only 512Mb?

    ken

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    You could try to make your own live image, using livecd-creator, and set it to text mode only.
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to..._use_a_Live_CD

    To get a minimal install image is quite easy by just copy pase some example code from the page above... but all the tweaks and 'compiling'/creating the image takes some more time.
    * Shell Wrapper and Runtime Modifier (SWARM): https://github.com/sri-arjuna/SWARM
    * Yet Another Simple Script Installer (YASSI): https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?323099
    * EFI Cheatsheet :: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=298546
    * Windows 8+ & Fedora 20+ Dualboot :: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=298161

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    Have you tried to enable a swap partition?

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    Quote Originally Posted by george_toolan
    Have you tried to enable a swap partition?
    How would I do that?

    FWIW: F14 is already installed on the drive, so it (should) have a swap partition, right?

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    Re: F16 install with 512Mb?

    If you let the installer setup the partitions automatically for you, you should definitely already have a swap partition.
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