Which media to use?

harishgayatri · #1 2nd June 2011, 02:50 PM

What is the difference between Fedora 15 Live cd & Fedora 15 Install DVD?

I am unable to install using Live cd on my Pentium 3 based system.

Will the Install DVD solve that problem?

Max ram is 512MB on my system & there is no more room for any upgrades.

Please help.
Regards,

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Anyone knows how to bypass the 640MB installer limit?

ghostdawg · #2 2nd June 2011, 02:53 PM

Are you installing G3? I had the same memory limit on my system, which have 512mb, and I couldn't get it to install. I ended up installing LXDE and now KDE 4.6 and KDE is running pretty smooth, better than I thought and it looks very good.

harishgayatri · #3 2nd June 2011, 03:31 PM

I found a workaround. Maybe somebody can understand & also make me understand what it means.

Check this linkhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708966

Live cd based Gnome 3 runs flawlessly on my Pentium 3 system.

sonoran · #4 2nd June 2011, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harishgayatri

Maybe somebody can understand & also make me understand what it means.

Boot into the LiveCD
Open the terminal.
Enter

Code:

su -

The Live system will not ask for root password, it will just make you root user.
Enter

Code:

gedit /user/sbin/anaconda

Go to line 362, or search for "needed" which will take you there.

That line reads

Code:

needed_ram = int((isys.MIN_RAM + extra_ram) / 1024)

Delete everything after = and replace it with 0, so it reads

Code:

needed_ram = 0

Save the file.

If you have 512 mb of ram, you shouldn't have to do the swap bit. Note that this only works for 32-bit systems, not 64, according to the comments. I haven't tried this, but wish you luck!

harishgayatri · #5 3rd June 2011, 04:52 AM

Thanks I did the same using vi editor & it worked like a charm.

Regards,

Peter_O · #6 6th January 2012, 02:00 PM

Hiya Folks

Trying to upgrade Fedora 14 to 16 via Software Update and am hitting this, I assume, same issue. Upon re-booting it stops at:

Trying to trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs

I can't see the anaconda file in /usr/sbin, so I'm assuming it lives elsewhere when doing the upgrade via Software Update?

In this circumstance, how/can I edit the "needed_ram" parameter before rebooting to being the install?

The only anaconda "like" config file I've been able to locate is /root/anaconda-ks.cfg which I think relates to my original Fedora install a few years back now.

Or... do I have to raid the spares/bargain bins and upgrade the RAM from 512Mb?

Cheers
Peter