On 11/16/2010 10:22 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Will (does) Centos 6 require 512Mb of memory for the GUI install like FC14 or the lower requirement of FC13?
My ASUS EE 700 has ~490Mb of memory (vidoe steals some from the 512Mb base) and FC14 switches to text install and does not install any GUI, leaving the boot in test mode.
<snip> I will *not* make comments about how an install isn't running a game engine, and so *ought* to be able to run in an order of magnitude less memory, except for bloated, objectionably oriented programming....
I TOTALLY do not get your point.
If you want the advanced Disk Druid features to work with LVM partitions, it seems you need the GUI version. That is pretty much the driver for me in many of my installs.
I SUPPOSE I can start playing with kickstart to either create the partitions as I want (tried that some years ago and always messed up something), or play with kickstart so it will start X11 even though there is on 480Mb of memory.
For servers, after the install, I set inittab to 3 and if I need a GUI to manage the server, I use VNC over SSH so I like to have gnome there for the couple times a year I use it (via VNC).
And my desktops that run FC or Centos have NO games on them. These are work systems. Even the family computers (XP or FC) do not have any games. If the kids want games they go over to their friends and play outside or with game boards where they have real interaction.