[CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Jerry Geis
> Sent: 22 September 2009 13:19
> To: CentOS ML
> Subject: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow
> 
> I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with
> 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down
> about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just
> crawled.
> I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around
> 70%
> the slow down.
> 
> I then put in 1G of RAM and everything zipped on past and finished
> fine.
> 
> Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not
noticed.
> Does the same apply for running?
> 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> jerry


What do you consider to be really slow? One thing I've def. Learned with
installing Linux, windows, OSX, anything that has a click-click-click
install procedure, what ever the bar says, (70% complete or 20 mins
left, depending on whose OS), it's LYING! Better set the installer go
and grab a beer or two. Come back in an hour, one of two things will
have been realised. One, you've just had a fun hour, got a bit drunk,
and to top it off, you have a working CentOS installation! Or two, you
forgot to click on the final button to get the install up and running,
and now in your semi drunk state, you click it, and go off and have
another two beers! When you come back.... Voila! A new clean virgin
CentOS install!

If the above two scenarios didn't work out, then I'm guessing you got a
problem with hardware, because CentOS 5.3 has installed for me on a
machine, with 256M memory, and 20G HD - check console output, to make
sure there isn't any errors, like maybe drive seek errors on your CD/DVD
- Man, that has happened to me before, took 3 days to realise! I thought
it was busted hard drives. (I was young... and stupid!) Now that I'm
older, and probably just as stupid, I look out for these things.

Sorry for rambling, we have an open bar in my office, and umm... we're
making use of it!