Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 21:12:14 UTC 2003


Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at welho.com) said: 
> > > Umm.. depends on what sort of monster you create out of firstboot. My
> > > P90 with 32MB memory is happily running FC1 after having updated it with
> > > apt, just the upgrade had to be done in couple of steps because of
> > > disk-space shortage (450MB :)
> > 
> > It's not firstboot that's the problem. It's the RPM transaction.
> 
> Remember we're talking about minimal installations with maybe 100
> packages installed. 32MB with swap enabled is no problem for such an
> installation memory wise, the transaction isn't big on these kind of
> boxes... 

Have you *tested* a full RPM transaction here as opposed to in anaconda?
I'd think you'd find the results are somewhat similar.

Bill





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