Chris Carr wrote: > Right, sorted it. In case anyone else with 32MB RAM wants to know - > > 1. Choose "load modules from floppy" and insert the cd_drivers_image (this > found the scsi driver) > 2. Switch to console 2 and type cat/proc/scsi to see the disks > 3. Type mkswap /dev/sdaX and swapon /dev/sdaX to set up swap space > 4. Type mount -t tmpfs -o remount,size=32M /dev/shm / to double the size > of the root partition (it defaults to half available RAM, so only 16MB) > 5. Go back to main menu and carry on the install > > The one snag with this method is that you've mounted a partition as swap, > so you won't be able to change the partition table for that drive. Either > you need a 2nd HD for the install partitioning, or you need to have set up > the partitions in advance (eg. with tomsrtbt). Yeah, we obviously need a menu item to set up swap quite early like this. However, that is the big problem with it, it really should also include partitioning. As you've also discovered, we don't deal well with out of memory situations, which covers all the breakage you described including the main menu crashing and restarting. One thing that I'm suprised at is that you have these problems with 32 mb of ram. I thought that 32 mb was just barely enough for a normal install, as long as you configured swap as soon as you could in normal partitioning. But my tests have been on a system with its memory artificially limited to 32 mb, and perhaps it was really slightly more than 32 mb or something like that. -- see shy jo
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