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Re: d-i runs out of RAM on 32 MB machine with 1 GB hard drive



* Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> [2006-11-23 12:18]:
> Does it make a difference, that the drive to partition is on an
> usb stick? (In other words: does creating filesystem on an
> usb stick consum more ram than creating on ide hard disc?)

No, it has been reproduced in qemu too.

> I have an Toshiba laptop with 32MB, on which d-i runs in
> low memory mode, and I have no problems to create ext2 filesystem
> of 4 GB on ide hard disc (64MB swap is created, too).

You have a 4 GB disk, not a 1 GB disk.  That's the difference.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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