Bug#571715: [squeeze alpha1] debian-installer: rescue mode no longer works on a 32MB ram machine

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > On my Toshiba Satelite laptop with 32MB of ram, the rescue mode
> > (text frontend) is not usable.
> 
> That's not so strange. The rescue mode has a lot of fairly heavy 
> dependencies to make it usable for all "normal" systems.
> 
> To do rescue on lowmem systems, you'll have to do things manually.
> 
> The only solution I see to avoid the out-of-memory error is simply to 
> refuse to load rescue mode on systems running in lowmem 2 and display a 
> warning instead.

Ok, I know that's only a corner case.
My thought was: it worked with lenny, so maybe there has been a change,
which was not intended to cause the brakeage.


Holger

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