Bug#405971: Installation report: works on SGI 02 (mips r5k-ip32)
Joerg, ping
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2007-01-07 19:40]:
> * Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de> [2007-01-07 18:15]:
> > The machine has 64M of RAM and the d-i installs in a low-memory-mode, which
>
> It should not use lowmem mode with 64 MB RAM. Can you please open a
> shell in the installer and do:
>
> ram=$(grep ^MemTotal: /proc/meminfo | { read x y z; echo $y; }) || true
> ram=$(expr "$ram" / 1024)
> echo $ram
> cat /proc/meminfo
>
> > results in directly using fdisk to create the partitions. Does
> > Debian now need > 64M RAM to offer a decent partition interface?
>
> No, that's a different issue. fdisk is used on all SGI machines
> (regardless of how much RAM you have) because parted doesn't support
> the SGI disklabel properly.
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> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/
>
>
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