Re: 24 Mb memory installs (was: Re: debian-installer beta 2 released)

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 07:08:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 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..:-)

And idea _where_ it fails?  i.e. Did you notice if any
particular application is being a memory sucking pig?

 -Erik

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