On 3/14/07, Martin Hamant mh@accelance.fr wrote:
Hi,
From the release notes i can read :
"Note that the minimum RAM required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.92 has been raised to 1GB; the recommended RAM is 2GB. If a machine has less than 1GB RAM, the installation process may hang."
Is it a joke/mistake ? :-O 1GB !!!
Actually no. I have run into several cases of doing large installs or adding extra repositories during the installation where the installer will just hang if you do not have 1 GB of ram. These are issues that I think will be fixed upstream for 5.1/5.2 timeframe.
What I have found so far:
Text Install: 256 MB of ram will work. 128MB will not. Graphic Install: 256MB of ram will install minimal system.
As you add more packages to the mix, you will need to increase the memory of the minimal system.