Bug#571715: [squeeze alpha1] debian-installer: rescue mode no longer works on a 32MB ram machine
Hi,
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> reassign 571715 rescue
> severity 571715 minor
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 27 February 2010, Holger Wansing 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.
[House-cleaning on bugreports]
I think it's a very uncommon situation where this problem occurs, and thus
not really worse to investigate time for fixing it.
Would you agree that this bugreport can be closed?
Thanks
Holger
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