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Re: Lowmem broken on S/390



On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 14:43, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Thornton wrote:
> > Using one of today's svn builds, trying to install S/390 in a low memory
> > configuration (32M) fails
> 
> How realistic is that? I thought s390 were big iron?

Yeah, but if you're running under VM, your virtual machine can be quite
small.  32M is perfectly reasonable for a machine that is going to, say,
be a router for a virtual network.  Your physical box is going to be a
great deal larger, but your virtual machine doesn't have to be.

> All that lowmem does is use debconf to ask a question. It may be that
> this happens before the s390 terminal is set up properly for debconf to
> work or something, but it has to happen before the regular bterm frame
> buffer setup on i386.

Can the order of "is it lowmem?  am I on s390-console?" be switched,
then?  That'd probably fix it.  Another alternative would be to fix the
lowmem threshold at 32M for S390 and simply say, "you must install in at
least a 32M virtual machine; you can shrink it after install if you
want."

Adam



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