On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Kenni Lund <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> I'm just curious, I've just checked the upstream system requirements
> and 1GB seems to be the official memory requirement for EL6.

I can confirm the problem. Using the same VMWare WS guest that had
been successfully used to install SL6.1 multiple times, I attempted to
do the same installs (1GB RAM) except that partitioning was done
manually with NO swap.

The installation crashed after the 'package installation completed'
step. I did this once with the "Desktop" type (1090 pkgs), another
time with "Minimal" (244 pkgs).

The error message was:

Anaconda died after receiving signal 9.
install exited abnormally [1/1]

I have not checked if this is a known issue upstream.

Akemi