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Displaying error message OS Error : Err no 12, cannot allocate memory

Dear all,
     We were trying to install linux on Pentium machine with followiing configuration

  System Configuration:
  Assembled PC with
  Intel 815 Chipset
  D-Link DFE 538 TX 10/100 NIC card
  64MB Memory.
  O/S Ver:  RedHat Linux 8.0

 and at one stage it was displaying the message like as shown below,

Exeception Occured.
An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
 
Traceback (most recent call ;ast)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda (gui.py," line 786, in handled render callback self. current window.render callback')
OS Error: [Err no:12] cannot allocate memor


Can anyone provide solutions for this.
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I think it may be due to to small memory, can you try to increase your memory to say 128MB RAM? how big is your swap space? normally it's double of your RAM size at lease the max. is 2GB, you can check your memory and swap space left by either 'top' or 'free -m' if the installation finished.
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Dear Paullamhkg,

    the swap space is 512mb and the installation is not finished. The error is displaying at earlier stages of setup.

Regards,

Venkatayogi
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