On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Kenni Lund <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Is it expected behaviour that SL6.1 requires more than 1GB of RAM to
> > install when using anaconda for the install? I've just had the
> > installer crash on me twice due to low memory, when I had 1024MB
> > dedicated to the VM. I didn't create any swap partition when I did the
> > partition layout within the installer, so if Anaconda expects to use
> > such swap partition for the install, that could explain the issue.
> 
> Perhaps not, but our favorite upstream vendor's default setups do
> create a swap partition, by default. While RAM is not the same thing
> as swap and I'm having good success now with VM's that have 1 Gig of
> RAM, I use some swap space. ignoring thoste standards is something you
> do at your own peril, both for installation and for operations.

I didn't try without swap space, but SL 6.1 even installs fine with
512MB memory, although it then automatically falls back to text mode
install.

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