On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 12:47, MIke wrote: > I am trying to put Fedora on my IBM laptop. I have a 10gb hdd and 84 mb > dram. Windows 98SE is installed on a 2GB partition. The rest is > unpartitioned. > > When I try to install Fedora, using a floppy to start and the embedded > CD to continue, all is well until I finish with the software selection > then the following appears in a pop-up > > ---------------------------------- > > traceback(most recent call Last); > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui-py", Line 786 , inhandleRenderCallback > self.currentWindow.renderCallback() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress-gui.py", Line 149 , inrenderCallback > self.intf.icw.nextClicked() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",Line 632 , innext Clicked > self.dispatch.gotoNext() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 150 , ingotoNext > self.moveStep() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 215 , inmovestep > rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args)) > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", Line 430 , in turnOnFilesystems > Partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", Line 1110 , indoMetaDeletes > (vm.vgactivate()) > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", > Line 66 , in execWithRedirect > childpid = os.fork() > > OSError[errno 12] cannot allocate memory > --------------------------- > > I have installed Fedora on a mini server, > (90 mb dram, 8 GB hdd and a 66 MHz P3) and it runs fine > so the problem does not seem to be resources. > > Any direction will be greatly appreciated. > > Mike > Further research, via bugzilla, reports this is not a bug. Hmmmmm. The stated answer is not enough memory. Hmmmmm. If I find a means to solve this I'll post it here. Mike
