Is there a way to force the install?

[jfinke]

I have a box with only 256 MB of RAM. Unfortunately, that is the only spare box I have. I have installed FC4 on the server. I have LVM working. I get to installing scalix and the installer craps out on my saying I do not have enough RAM. I understand for a production box, I am going to need some beefier. However, I am just testing out the functionality right now.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Jeremy

[florian]

Believe this is documented somewhere in the Release Notes or the Install Guide, isn't it?

Anyway, you can run the installer as

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scalix-installer --warnonly

This will turn some of the SysCheck errors into warnings, one of them being the memory one; obviously, it'll not do it for all of them (like hard dependency checks). The switch should be used with some care as obviously the resulting system might have problems. Scalix Server should run with 512 MB of memory, however, your system should have enough swap space configured should it temporarily require more. Also, performance impacts will be seen, so please do not evaluate performance based on this configuration.

Also note that this is obviously unsupported for a production configuration.... guess you know that.

HTH,
Florian.

[jfinke]

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

It could have been in the release notes.. I did not find it. I searched for force and memory, etc...

And I searched the forums, but the joys of searching..

Thank you again, I am going to give it a try now...

Now, that I have my FC4 LVM issues worked out... Wow, have they done a bad job of ensuring all of the modules are installed for everything.

So, for everyone doing LVM snapshots who are using FC4, you need the dm-snapshot module loaded. I put this in the LVM section of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. It seems to be working now...

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modprobe dm-snapshot

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# LVM2 initialization
if [ -x /sbin/lvm.static ]; then
    if ! LC_ALL=C fgrep -q "device-mapper" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null ; then
        modprobe dm-mod >/dev/null 2>&1
        modprobe dm-snapshot >/dev/null 2>&1
    fi
    echo "mkdmnod" | /sbin/nash --quiet >/dev/null 2>&1
    [ -n "$SELINUX" ] && restorecon /dev/mapper/control >/dev/null 2>&1
    if [ -c /dev/mapper/control -a -x /sbin/lvm.static ]; then
        if /sbin/lvm.static vgscan --mknodes --ignorelockingfailure > /dev/null
2>&1 ; then
            action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/lvm.static vgchange -a y --ignorelockingfailure
        fi
    fi
fi

Jeremy