Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

[John Reiser]

Matt Domsch wrote:

> Indeed, a network install with 128MB just doesn't work; Something
> called 'exe' gets hung trying to install glibc. :-(
> 
> I noticed that the RAM file systems in use are actually ramfs, not
> tmpfs, so even after swap is enabled, swap can't be used as backing
> store for the files we're downloading, some of which are quite large.

Doesn't the installer's "stage2" filesystem get put into "swap space"
on low-memory machines during a network install?

> 
> Doing a local CD-ROM install did succeed on this same system, which
> leads me to think that the ramfs->tmpfs switch might be beneficial for
> exactly this reason.

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