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Re: How much mem is low, exactly?



Quoting sylvain ferriol (sylvain.ferriol@imag.fr):

> it's because os-prober depends on xfs, ext3, reiserfs,...
> 
> but even in lowmem mode, i don't want to play with dependencies. so if a 
> module depends on others, d-i will load them.
> 
> but now we can check if dependencies for all udebs are 'really' 
> dependencies, not just suggests.
> i don't know os-prober, but i think it do not depend on fs modules

Well, it has to as its purpose is other operating systems recognition
by reading their filesystems...

A possibility is dropping os-prober in lowmem mode. I guess that most
users installing in low memory conditions will be skilled enough for
configuring a dual boot later.






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