Re: debian-installer beta 2 released

["W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Quoting Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
> W. Borgert wrote:
> > Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook?  It's a 486/100 with
> > 24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk.  No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
> > PCMCIA ethernet card.  Screen about 30 cm.  Woody ran fine.
> 
> Not unless you feel comfortable with setting up a swap partition
> manually as soon as the installer boots, in a shell. We currently lack a
> utility to do this automatic early enough to support less than 32 mb of
> ram.

I'm relieved, that swap is the only problem.  I tried FAI on
the machine and failed, because FAI doesn't support PCMCIA
network.  With the woody installer the only problem was the
huge number of floppies I needed.

Would it be difficult to create a d-i module for that task?

Cheers, WB