Installation Troubles
Ben Stringer
ben at burbong.com
Tue Mar 23 02:48:10 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:33, Sam McCandlish wrote:
> I have a PC with 32MB of RAM.
> I am having trouble installing Fedora. When I start it up the "splash
> screen" come up and I press enter. Lots of text comes up, loading this
> and that, the CD passes the "test", and I start the installation. Then
> the following appears:
>
> Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer – please wait...
> Install exited abnormally
> (Then the system shuts down)
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?
Yep - Fedora requires 64MB ram for a text-mode installation, 192MB for
graphical. I believe anaconda makes sure it has at least 64MB.
See the release notes for more details - if you have fedora installed
elsehwere, you can find them at:
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-1/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
Cheers, Ben
>
> Thanks for all your help!
> Sam
>
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