Bug#60679: rescue/root disk boot fails with 8 megs of ram
Chris Ruvolo <csr6702@grace.rit.edu> writes:
> 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.
Yikes.
> 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.
Ok -- if someone could determine the minimum RAM requirements, we
could update that.
> 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.
Well, it doesn't seem likely at this point since even though it gets
requested quite often, no one with expertise is actually working on it
(that I know of).
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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