On 2016-09-01 15:08, Josef Reidinger wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:14:45 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
So indeed there is a memory problem on the NET install media. 768 MB is not enough (recommended minimum by vmware for openSUSE is 512 MB)
The Full DVD does not have any of those problems, installs fine and fast enough (though not fast).
Let me bring some light here, as we do some investigation in this area in past weeks[1]. NET media have problem, that it have to download insts-sys stuff and it is download directly to memory. For DVD case, it directly DVD, which means some spinning, but almost no memory. After some work, we reduced for TW by ( and maybe also leap, as there is more stuff ) 50 MB of RAM, but there is still a lot of stuff that have to be used. So for network based installation 1GB is recommended for graphical installation.
Perhaps the installer could warn of low memory when it starts, differentiating the type of media used (full vs net). The Net media needs more than I gave it, but the DVD works fine on 768MB. Of course, the recommended minimum by vmware is wrong: 512MB.
[1] https://lizards.opensuse.org/2016/07/27/highlights-of-yast-development-sprin... "Installer memory consumption reduced" part
He! :-) ]> For our SLE customers we promise installations on machines with as little as 512MB of RAM. For Tumbleweed, 1GB is required – so the situation is more relaxed there. Leap uses the SLE code base :-)) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)