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[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 23:12, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at welho.com) said: 
> > > > Umm.. depends on what sort of monster you create out of firstboot. My
> > > > P90 with 32MB memory is happily running FC1 after having updated it with
> > > > apt, just the upgrade had to be done in couple of steps because of
> > > > disk-space shortage (450MB :)
> > > 
> > > It's not firstboot that's the problem. It's the RPM transaction.
> > 
> > Remember we're talking about minimal installations with maybe 100
> > packages installed. 32MB with swap enabled is no problem for such an
> > installation memory wise, the transaction isn't big on these kind of
> > boxes... 
> 
> Have you *tested* a full RPM transaction here as opposed to in anaconda?
> I'd think you'd find the results are somewhat similar.

The box has been upgraded live from RHL 7.2->7.3->8.0->9 -> FC1 and up
to 8.0 the trimmed-down package set was small enough to fit into *disk*
(remember, 450MB disk..) simultaneously during upgrade so it was
possible to do the upgrade in single transaction. 

Anaconda certainly consumes gobs of memory but 32MB memory + 32/64MB
swap will get you a long way.. A stock workstation class RHL 9 upgrade
to FC1 with apt (while testing the rpmlib-implementation) topped at
around 70MB (IIRC) memory usage so would get tight on a 32MB box but
again we're talking about a much smaller package set too.

Not that I really care, I've been running it more out of curiosity to
see how far it can go than anything else. So far it's done just fine :)

	- Panu -