[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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