Bug#148962: boot-floppies: Inaccurately calculates/reports amount of RAM on target machine
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 02:17, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> On my target system with 12mb of physical RAM, the boot floppies set
> complains that I only have 9mb, and should have 12mb to run woody.
>
> Incidentally, 9mb is what 'free' reports. Since this, IIRC, does not
> include kernel memory, it is obviously not going to show a completely
> accurate number.
Yeah, dbootstrap checks /proc/meminfo, which is probably the same thing
"free" looks at. I don't actually know of a way to find out what the
physical memory size is, though I guess one must exist. Suggestions
would be welcome.
> Perhaps change the "requirement" to 8-9mb so that when free reports 9mb, it
> will meet the requirement,
Can you confirm that the amount of RAM you had was indeed sufficient to
complete the install? I'm not sure trustworthy the "12MB" number really
was in the first place.
p.
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