(repost of what was sent to anaconda list since it mostly involved installation.)
reading the FC3t2 release notes, some curiosities:
1) "The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora Core 2.91 Test 2 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on CD-ROM 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system."
this suggests that the stage2.img file is copied to the hard drive during the installation, so that makes sense. but i don't understand why the stuff under /var/lib/rpm would be considered an "additional" space requirement above and beyond the regular install. it's all still there after the installation is complete.
can someone clarify why the contents of /var/lib/rpm would be considered an "additional" space requirement?
2) i could have sworn that someone posted that SELinux was disabled by default during the install, but during my install, it was definitely activated, and i had to manually turn it off.
3) "Memory testing may be performed prior to installing Fedora Core by entering memtest86 at the boot: prompt. This causes the Memtest86 standalone memory testing software to run. Memtest86 memory testing continues until the Esc key is pressed."
"NOTE: You must boot from CD-ROM 1 (or a rescue CD-ROM) in order to use this feature."
um ... i'm pretty sure memtest is also part of boot.iso and diskboot.img, no? the way the above is worded is a bit misleading.
4) regarding space required for installation:
"... Minimum for graphical: 192MB ..."
"... However, due to the necessity of containing the installer image in RAM, only systems with more than 128MB of RAM (or systems booted from CD-ROM 1, which contains the installer image) can use the graphical installer."
and the correct minimum value would be ... ?
more later as i keep reading.
rday
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:49:45 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day rpjday@mindspring.com wrote:
- i could have sworn that someone posted that SELinux was disabled by default
during the install, but during my install, it was definitely activated, and i had to manually turn it off.
No selinux using targetted policy is on by default on fc3t2... in fact there is a thread in the lists where community were asked to re-enable selinux if they had explicitly disabled it previously, before doing an upgrade to fc3t2 to test the new targetted default policy.
Why are you turning it off? The new targetted policy needs testing.
-jef
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:49:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
- regarding space required for installation:
"... Minimum for graphical: 192MB ..."
"... However, due to the necessity of containing the installer image in RAM, only systems with more than 128MB of RAM (or systems booted from CD-ROM 1, which contains the installer image) can use the graphical installer."
and the correct minimum value would be ... ?
I've always taken this to mean that you need 192 megs for acceptable performance for a graphical system (that is a system with X installed), but that you need 128 megs to run the graphical installer.
128 megs is minimum to use graphical installer. 192 recommended minimum to run a graphical system. It's not tremendously clear, but that's the way I've always read it.
I've done graphical installs (of FC2) on a system with 64 megs of memory before, though. I haven't tried it with FC3 test, yet.
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