On November 11, 2003 07:05 pm, Mark G. Spencer "Mark G. Spencer"
<mspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > How much RAM is in this computer? I had two computers (P/166 both) with
> > > 32 MB barf on FTP installs, and in each case increasing RAM to 64 MB
> > > made the FTP install proceed normally.
> >
> > This Sony PCG-505G has 32mb ram .. very interesting! Perhaps 64mb is the
> > minimum for FTP install of Fedora?
>
> Following up on this last post .. when I alt-ctrl-F4 I get the following:
>
> <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0)
> <3>Out of Memory: Killed process 12 (loader).
>
> I'm not knowledgeable enough to know whether these two items are connected
> or not. I'm assuming out of memory means RAM? If that is the case I think
> I'll give up on this particular laptop and find a newer one. Strangely
> enough though, Mandrake 9.2 installed on this clunker.
>
> Mark
... From the RELEASE-NOTES on Disk 1 of Fedora Core1 (Yarrow):
"Hardware Requirements
The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements
necessary to successfully install Fedora Core 1:
....
Memory:
o Minimum for text-mode: 64MB
o Minimum for graphical: 192MB
o Recommended for graphical: 256MB".
HTH & cheers,
Elton ;-)
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