A bug in the text based ISO installation CDs?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 18:06 -0800, Rob Prowel wrote:
> 
> --- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I
> > > selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
> > > 3000MB in size?
> 
> 
> > This now depends on the swap partition, boot
> > partitions and other partitions that are on your
> > system.  By default the swap partition size is
> > double
> > the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your
> > swap
> > partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will
> > be
> > your swap partition size, and so on 
> > 
> >    3000MB
> >   -1080MB
> > ---------
> >   1920 MB swap ?
> > - 1024 MB
> > --------- 
> >    896 MB
> >  - 100 MB /boot partition ?
> > ---------
> >    796 MB ??? 
> 
> point taken...the machine is rather light: 48MB of EDO
> RAM, 200mhz pentium classic and a 3GB hard disk (to be
> used only as a firewall and wireless bridge)
> 
>From the release notes for FC4 it requires 64MB of ram for (text)
install. You may be seeing a message as a result of inadequate memory
and not actually based on the size of the drive.


> my fdisk for the target disk (before) starting the
> installation was
> 
> sda1    /          2920MB (bootable) ext3
> sda2    swap        ~80MB
> 
> being an old Solaris geek I still stay close to the 2
> times RAM rule of thumb for swap.
> 
> I left his alone and all I did was under druiddisk I
> set the target mountpoint for sda1.  I had already run
> mkswap on the swap partition.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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