Installation Troubles

[Ben Stringer]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:33, Sam McCandlish wrote:
> I have a PC with 32MB of RAM.
> I am having trouble installing Fedora.  When I start it up the "splash 
> screen" come up and I press enter. Lots of text comes up, loading this 
> and that, the CD passes the "test", and I start the installation. Then 
> the following appears:
> 
> Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer – please wait...
> Install exited abnormally
> (Then the system shuts down)
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?

Yep - Fedora requires 64MB ram for a text-mode installation, 192MB for
graphical. I believe anaconda makes sure it has at least 64MB.

See the release notes for more details - if you have fedora installed
elsehwere, you can find them at:

/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-1/RELEASE-NOTES-i386

Cheers, Ben


> 
> Thanks for all your help!
> Sam
>