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Bug#256547: marked as done (installation-reports: i486 with 20 MB lowmem+floppy fails as expected)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:40 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #256547
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regarding installation-reports: i486 with 20 MB lowmem+floppy fails as expected
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Package: installation-reports
Version: floppy image in tc1 (2004-05-30 22:19)
Severity: normal

Machine: IBM Thinkpad230Cs
Processor: 80486 DX2 50 MHz
Memory: 20 MB (4MB+16MB, Max)
Root Device: IDE (Upgraded to 2GB)
Root Size/partition table: 
 hda1 ext3 (woody system was going to be wiped and over written)
 hda5 swap
 ...  more ext2 FS for woody
Output of lspci:
 N/A now.

Failed to install as expected :)

Base System Installation Checklist: (No special action, linux)

Initial boot worked:    [O] Mention low mem.
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [N/A] (Floppy/network install) 
Load installer modules: [E] Without swap, it failed as expected
...
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

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Base System Installation Checklist: (Boot with expert)

Initial boot worked:    [O] Mention low mem.
Load deiver from floppy:[O] net-drivers.img
Choose language:        [O]
Choose country:         [O] Belgium/English/PC-AT/us
Detect network:         [O] Start PC card yes:
  complain about lack of modules such as ide-detect, ide-*, isofs
Configure network HW:   [O] Yes DHCP without DHCP hostname
Config network:         [O] 
 At this stage, ide modules are not available.
Load installer modules: [ ] 
 manually just select installer components only.
 it install many modules such as lowmem again here.
 Are they needed?
 Abort at lvm2-udeb  (Free/MEM is 636) same as above.
 Go to console and I could activate swap using devfs device name but too
 late.

Detect CD:              [N/A] 

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Memo:

I was pleasantly surprised to see my old PC card (16bit) NIC was
working.  

Considering for most people installing lowmem, lvm2-udev etc are not
needed.  So if lowmem flags some packages out of initial downloads, I
may have survived.  (Do not download in one action.  Just download 
first set and prompt for user interaction only for lowmem, then install
the rest.)

As I think about it, I just need some way to selectively install modules
(I am sure there is but it is not obvious) such as ide normal modules
so swap can be easily activated. For lowmem, I think ide-detect module
etc. needs to be there before normal action of installer modules.  This
will give access to swap so memory will not run out so easily.

If there is a small optional module to activate some hard disk partition
automatically, I think lowmem support will be greater.

Osamu

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
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If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
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