[CLUE-Tech] Fedora2 Upgrade?

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:12:13 -0600, Richard C. Savage
<71oesav71 at estreet.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

Yeah, I would try more swap. In most cases you can use an extra swap
partition (or even a swap file if you have no space for an extra
partition!!!), but I don't know how that fits in with the Fedora
installer.

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