24 Mb memory installs (was: Re: debian-installer beta 2 released)
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> > 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
By the way, I confirm that beta-2 fails on 24Mb systems......tested in
the same conditions Joey did (VmWare) with the same result..:-)
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