Timothy Murphy wrote:
David Timms wrote:
Note that upgrades require min of 512MB RAM [to do the package
dependency calculation in], and also approximately the same amount of
free space on disk as the currently installed OS files take. This is
because all new packages are installed, and then the old packages are
"Cleaned up" {erased}.
I don't think that is true, unless there has been a change in Fedora-7.
I upgraded on a machine with 375MB RAM under FC-6 without any problem.
People seem to make assertions about minimal hardware requirements
without any actual testing of what they say.
Is the package dependency calculation actually done in RAM?
Umm. How else would it be done?
Rahul