Bug#237320: installation-report 3
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 06-Mar-2004, from http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/
uname -a: I'm on different install now
Date: 10-Mar-2004
Method: from floppy then network on a previously prepeared ext3 filesystem
from ftp.pl.debian.org, no proxy.
Machine: PC self made from trash parts
Processor: Pentium 120
Memory: 32M RAM
Root Device: IDE, hda1
Root Size/partition table: all on hda1, about 1700M
Output of lspci: I'm on different install now
This is intel/Zappa motherboard with chpiset 430FX,
network card 3Com Etherexpress II TP (8 bit ISA).
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
First kernel start [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
expert mode
Too small memory (32M).
As before I coped by removing all network modules after autodetection,
then removing all ide/pci modules, with the exception of piix.o,
before ide hardware detection.
Then a swap file and it run OK, kernel upload also OK (2.4.25).
GRUB OK, but after the rebott the machine reboots
after it prints something about initrd (~5 lines of messages, total).
Will try with a rescue floppy now.
So it seems, the installed does not work on 32M,
but with additional superexpert mode,
where you choose which debian-installer components to skip
and which modules to choose (no autoprobing), 32M shoudl be enough.
On the other hand 24M seems impossible.
Cheers,
Mikolaj
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