Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> James A. Peltier wrote: >>> CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation >> I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly >> anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM, and it >> installed. > > You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install That's certainly the problem, thanks. I don't use swap on VMs, for fairly obvious reasons. I guess I could use file-based swap, so it's easy to turn off and recover the space after the install finishes. My VMs really don't need more than 512 MB of RAM when running.