Hello All,

I have just installed Fedora 7 on one of my machines. During the installation process, I checked the boxes for the packages that I wished to be installed and unchecked the boxes for the packages I did not want to be installed.

During this installation process, I was informed that my machine had low memory, and required the swap space to be used immediately. I was also not able to use the 'graphical installation wizard'.

The installation process took approximately one hour.

During the first boot-up after installation, I was not presented with the firstboot program, or the rhgb.

I then logged in as root. Some packages that I asked to be installed were not, and some that I did not ask for were. I asked for thunderbird and XFCE, neither were installed.

I have now attempted this three times; there were no error messages on any attempt.

I downloaded the DVD iso from the Fedora official website.

Thanks in advance,
The Godfather.

Better tackle that "low memory" issue first. What are your system specs? Is all of your memory being correctly detected by the BIOS?

Also, I think you can boot into Fedora in a "memory test" mode

Thinking ahead, I have found it much better to install from just one CD and then add stuff using the package manager. YMMV

Thanks.

I don't think it's a memory problem. I have installed other versions of Fedora on other machines with low memory - requiring swap space to be initialised immediately. These work fine.

I have 184MB of physical memory and 1000MB of swap space. I believe this should be enough.