On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:44:58 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
First of all, thanks for your quick reply.
[...]
> > 0. the screen blanked for a while
> > 1. the interface got repainted (again "Loading components of the
> > Debian Installer")
> > 2. the progress bar restarted from zero
> > 3. progress status said "unpacking base-installer"
> > 4. the progress bar reached 10 %
> > 5. goto 0. (in a seemingly endless loop)
>
> Sounds like your machine is out of memory.
Maybe, but, as I said, that machine has a memory capacity equal to 32
Mibyte (and has passed two full memtest86 runs with no errrors).
The debian-installer documentation claims it will run with as little as
24 Mibyte...
What did I fail to understand?
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