Does Arch Linux Installer really need 160 MB RAM?

bhy · 08-02-2008, 05:05 PM

Hello. The Arch Linux Beginners Guide says (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...inux_Installer) that the Arch Linux installer requires 160 MB RAM. Is this true and does it mean that it's impossible to install Arch on a computer with 128 MB RAM? Could be compensated with more swap? In case it could, how much swap? More than twice the amount of RAM? Thank you very much.

syg00 · 08-02-2008, 05:57 PM

No.
Doesn't pay to read things too literally - my guess would be that is for the final system. The Arch installer is (or was last I used it) ncurses based. Wouldn't need anything like that much.
As for swap, just pick a number - on a small system try 500 Meg if you can afford the (disk) space.

Anyway, just try it - if it fails, nothing lost but a bit of time, and you will have have learnt something.

shien · 08-04-2008, 03:27 PM

128MB RAM works
vbox guest machine

czarr · 08-08-2008, 05:50 PM

You could do it with with hardly any ram if you install one package at a time. But i think 96? mb can be used fine when you install with the "lowmem" option.