On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 18:06 -0800, Rob Prowel wrote: > > --- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I > > > selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is > > > 3000MB in size? > > > > This now depends on the swap partition, boot > > partitions and other partitions that are on your > > system. By default the swap partition size is > > double > > the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your > > swap > > partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will > > be > > your swap partition size, and so on > > > > 3000MB > > -1080MB > > --------- > > 1920 MB swap ? > > - 1024 MB > > --------- > > 896 MB > > - 100 MB /boot partition ? > > --------- > > 796 MB ??? > > point taken...the machine is rather light: 48MB of EDO > RAM, 200mhz pentium classic and a 3GB hard disk (to be > used only as a firewall and wireless bridge) > >From the release notes for FC4 it requires 64MB of ram for (text) install. You may be seeing a message as a result of inadequate memory and not actually based on the size of the drive. > my fdisk for the target disk (before) starting the > installation was > > sda1 / 2920MB (bootable) ext3 > sda2 swap ~80MB > > being an old Solaris geek I still stay close to the 2 > times RAM rule of thumb for swap. > > I left his alone and all I did was under druiddisk I > set the target mountpoint for sda1. I had already run > mkswap on the swap partition. > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com >
