Carr, Chris wrote: > There are two problems which caused the install to run out of memory > on my 32Mb machine - > > 1. The root (shm) filesystem defaults to half available RAM, ie. 16Mb. > If you set it to default to 24Mb, or even 20Mb, it would work (after > all installer components were unpacked it stood at 19.5Mb). > > 2. The installer defaults to loading a whole bunch of unnecessary > modules. I know this is all about making it work smoothly on loads of > different hardware setups, but one solution would be to force the > debconf priority right down if it finds that main RAM <48Mb. With > careful selection of components, I suspect you could manage the > install on a 16Mb machine, let alone a 32Mb one. Nowadays, anyone > who's trying to install this on a 32Mb or lower machine probably knows > which hardware drivers they need .... > > CC P.S. I would be happy to write a "low memory installation" howto if > that would help. Ok, I had not realized you were using beta1. This is fixed in the faily builds. On December 15th we changed d-i to use tmpfs, with size=100mb. This should make it use as much memory as needed for d-i, up to 100 mb. A bit later, we made it free the boot ramdisk properly, which knocked several MB off of the space requirements. And like I said, I have tested it on machines artificially limited to 32 mb at boot time, and it works. -- see shy jo
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