Re: Bug#121177: boot-floppies: can't install dpkg

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Philip Blundell wrote on Tue Nov 27, 2001 um 07:15:16PM:

> I guess it would be nice if dbootstrap caught this situation early and
> told the

You get a warning if you did not create some swap space. What additional
things do you wish? Something like 
Continue? -> Yes -> "Sorry Dave, I cannot let you do this"?

> user that they need to visit the hardware store.  Anyone know a
> remotely portable method of checking the amount of RAM?  I suppose you
> could parse the MemTotal line out of /proc/meminfo fairly easily.

Yes, could be done. I even imagine to ask about creating a swap FILE,
let the user input the size and make one on the mounted root partition.
But no spare time for hacking yet.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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