I finally got round to booting my laptop with the FC^h7 Live DVD. The
system has 1GB of RAM so I first tried to do a "load image into RAM
(requires 1GB)". The system flailed about for a while continuously
running out of memory (e.g., the initial Firefox with the Fedora welcome
page never succeeded in starting). I finally hit the power button and
rebooted. This time I chose "run from image" and things worked
reasonably well. I'll need to make the fwcutter output available on
some kind of removable media so I can try bcm43xx. Otherwise, things
went well.
Given the above problem I'd suggest that the minimum RAM for loading the
image be increased to more like 1.5GB or even 2GB. Also, My system has
a 2GB swap partition that was ignored. This seems to be a shame since
utilizing it would have prevented the out of memory problem. Maybe
another choice is needed on the boot menu which says scan the existing
hard drives for a Linux swap partition.
Another nice enhancement would be to provide a way to mount partitions
that the provided kernel knows how to access (e.g., have a /old and
allow the user to selectively mount such partitions under /old).
Cheers,
Dave
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