On 04/21/2017 12:49 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: > > It seems, that this is not related to local disk space - as I initally > thought - but to too small memory. It only happens with VMs with > little RAM (1024 MB). As soon as we raise the available memory to > 2048 MB, kickstarting works fine. The RHEL 7 installation guide > states, that the minimal memory requirement is 1 GB, so the network > installation /should/ work. Yeah, I filed a bug report against the documentation some time ago. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410948 ...though bugzilla is currently down. > Is there a way to install such hosts w/o having to temporarily raise > the available memory? None that I'm aware of, as of 7.3. If you have a 7.2 install tree, you can boot the older installer and then update the installed system. Seems easier to boost the memory, typically.