[CLUE-Tech] Fedora2 Upgrade?
Richard C. Savage
71OEsAV71 at estreet.com
Fri Oct 1 19:12:13 MDT 2004
I'm attempting to upgrade from RedHat 9.0 to Fedora Core 2, using the
CD-ROM set in the Fedora Linux 2 Bible by Chris Negus. The current
installation is a Personal Desktop configuration, which runs acceptably
(slow, but useful). The machine is a 200 MHz Pentium I, 156MB RAM, 30GB
hda (the only HDD on the system), partitioned as follows:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16 (i.e., Win95)
/dev/hda2 262 1023 6120765 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 1024 2935 15358140 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2936 3738 6450097+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda5 262 522 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hda6 523 783 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 784 1023 1927768+ 83 Linux (Linux /boot)
I'm getting an error during the install process (upgrade install),
saying "unable to allocate memory", at which point, of course, the
install shuts down. Negus's book warns me that the graphic install of
Fedora expects at least 192 MB RAM (256 recommended), and a 400 MHz
Pentium II. I did a "media check" of the install disk; it passed.
As you see, the swap partition (hda4) is small (abt 6 MB); I goofed.
Didn't seem to matter before. Suggestions? Make a larger swap
partition? Just too little memory? Bad install disk? Other?
Dick Savage
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