Fedora 6 is not able to install in PIII, 256MB SD RAM, 1.3GHz

Just Do it jdoit555 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 14:11:24 UTC 2007


Aaron:

If you referring to 5GB Hard disk space...
Then in my case: I have given 40GM of my Hard disk space to install by
erasing all the disk space and create default layout....and also played
with  different option of partitioning available also....

On 1/11/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:54 -0600, R. Jensen wrote:
> > Just Do it wrote:
> > > Fedora 6 installation is not working in PIII, 256MB SD RAM(2 stick),
> 1.3GHz
> > >
> > > Each time I try to install it hang during the installation
> time...every
> > > time at different location....
> > >
> > > I try with all possible option available in fedora 6 I guess....still
> > > fails..
> >
> > I have installed FC6 + Eclipse on a 5GB partition on an old Dell
> > Inspiron 4100 laptop: 256MB of RAM, Pentium III, etc.
> >
> > I used the graphical installer, from the DVD image of FC6 which I had
> > used successfully before to install on an old HP Pavilion [Also a
> Pentium III
> > but with 320MB RAM].
> >
> > However, for the laptop install I unchecked ALL packages (no
> office/productivity)
> > and only after the install succeeded did I install Eclipse and the GCC
> tool chain
> > /libraries.
> >
> > I don't know if that will help or not.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> One can't argue with success but 5GB seems to small for an FC6
> installation in general. In my mind 256MB ram is also marginal.
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