Hi,
The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS 6.x graphic installer? In our public libraries we have some old hardware running CentOS 5, and I wonder if some of these machines can be upgraded to CentOS 6. Unfortunately RHEL 5.x' nifty text mode installer got seriously crippled with version 6.x.
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:36:51 +0200 Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS 6.x graphic installer?
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:52:38PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:36:51 +0200 Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS 6.x graphic installer?
I believe the limits are bound by the installer:
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/rhel6-branch/isys/isys.h#L23
Its possible to install the OS and then reduce the RAM if you want it to be less. Something I've done for VMs in the past.
On 06/01/2016 11:36 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS 6.x graphic installer? In our public libraries we have some old hardware running CentOS 5, and I wonder if some of these machines can be upgraded to CentOS 6. Unfortunately RHEL 5.x' nifty text mode installer got seriously crippled with version 6.x.
From the CentOS 6.8 Release Notes:
The installer needs at least 406MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 632MB of memory.
So, I would say for the GUI installer (using 256MB increments), 768MB is the lowest round number value of usable RAM.
Le 02/06/2016 à 16:40, Johnny Hughes a écrit :
From the CentOS 6.8 Release Notes:
The installer needs at least 406MB of memory to work. Text mode will automatically be used if the system has less than 632MB of memory.
So, I would say for the GUI installer (using 256MB increments), 768MB is the lowest round number value of usable RAM.
Thanks very much !
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