Bug#60679: rescue/root disk boot fails with 8 megs of ram

[Chris Ruvolo <csr6702@grace.rit.edu>]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.8-2000-03-09

Yesterday I attempted to do an installtion off of the potato rescue/root
disks on a 486DX-33 with 8 megs of ram.  Upon attempting to load the root
disk, an out-of-memory condition was reported.

So, I decided to move the HD into another machine to perform the
installation.  While going through the installation, there is a message
saying that the installation requires 8 megs if swap is being used, and 14
megs without swap being used.

Now, afaik, there is no way to create swap before the HD is partitioned.  
Does this make the real memory requirements of the boot floppies 14 megs?  
If so, please update all the documentation.  Everything I've seen says
that it'll work fine with 8 megs.

I'd also like to suggest bringing back the lowmem boot floppies for those
of us with older hardware.  Only having 5 megs of ram left after the
kernel gets loaded is rather limiting.

Thanks much,
Chris Ruvolo