FC7 on small system

[Kevin Kofler]

Timothy Murphy <tim <at> birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> writes:
> In my experience, Fedora developers (and probably other developers too)
> never actually test their minimal requirements.
> I think they just look in their hearts and guess what is required.
> 
> I've frequently found that a distribution works perfectly well
> on a system below the stated minimal requirements.

I've had Anaconda lock up in the middle of the installing process on low-RAM 
machines (admittedly with many packages installed), so I'd be careful there. It 
_might_ even be safer to do an apt-rpm or yum upgrade than an Anaconda upgrade 
on such low-memory machines, though that can fail for other reasons (especially 
direct FC4->F7 with apt/yum is likely to result in a broken initrd because the 
mkinitrd in FC4 is old and probably can't create valid initrds for the F7 
kernel).

        Kevin Kofler