On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:27:33AM -0400, Andre wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on an 2.4.21 based ARM system with 8MB ram and a 256MB swap partition (using the debootstrap + network method). > > I get through the base system OK (very slow due to excessive swapping) but after that apt-get install <almost anything> causes dpkg to segfault (seems to happen as the amount of swap space used matches the amount of physical memory ?). > Linux no longer needs the swap to match teh physical , swap is simply an extension of main memory, tho it is a good idea to have enough backing store for all physical pages present. I am impressed you managed to get that far! I assume you simply ok the warnings from dbootstrap mentioning it requires 16MB? The short answer is "forget it" the longer answer is that you *may* get a custom build into 8MB but the debian install simply doesnt fit ATM. > (The same system with 16MB + swap has no problems). > As this is a minimum requirement... > Is there anything I can do to make apt-get work in 8MB ?? > apt builds its dependacy trees and with more than a few hundred packages its requires a *lot* of memory to do this so I am unsurprised. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
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