x86_64 Live DVD Feedback

[Rahul Sundaram]

David G. Miller wrote:
> I finally got round to booting my laptop with the FC^h7 Live DVD.  The 
> system has 1GB of RAM so I first tried to do a "load image into RAM 
> (requires 1GB)".  The system flailed about for a while continuously 
> running out of memory (e.g., the initial Firefox with the Fedora welcome 
> page never succeeded in starting).  I finally hit the power button and 
> rebooted.  This time I chose "run from image" and things worked 
> reasonably well.  I'll need to make the fwcutter output available on 
> some kind of removable media so I can try bcm43xx.  Otherwise, things 
> went well.
> 
> Given the above problem I'd suggest that the minimum RAM for loading the 
> image be increased to more like 1.5GB or even 2GB. 

If it doesn't run with 1 GB on RAM that should be filed as a bug report.

  Also, My system has
> a 2GB swap partition that was ignored.  This seems to be a shame since 
> utilizing it would have prevented the out of memory problem.  Maybe 
> another choice is needed on the boot menu which says scan the existing 
> hard drives for a Linux swap partition.
> 
> Another nice enhancement would be to provide a way to mount partitions 
> that the provided kernel knows how to access (e.g., have a /old and 
> allow the user to selectively mount such partitions under /old).

Please file enhancement request against livecd-tools in 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Rahul