Bug#293306: marked as done (Debian Installer BUG with kernel 2.6 at low memory)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #293306,
regarding Debian Installer BUG with kernel 2.6 at low memory
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Package: debian-installer
Version: all versions
If you wanna install Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6 through
debian-installer on old machine with 32MB memory, debian-installer
crashed (looping forever).
Detailed review:
1) Boot PC with netinsts CD.
2) Choose "linux26" for instalation.
3) Choose "czech" language (my language).
.
.
.
Now (Loading components of the Debian installer):
Debian-installer working well till he ride on "fdisk-udeb" at 87%. Then
he restarted from the beginning and working till he ride on
"xfsprogs-udeb" at 8%. Then he restarted from the beginning and working
till he ride on "xfsprogs-udeb" at 8%. And looping forever from
beginning to "xfsprogs-udeb" at 8%.
I pushed ALT+F3 and last *.ko module was isofs. I pushed ALT+F4 and
watching looping, but not so interested i mean.
My PC:
CPU: AMD K6 166MHz
MB: MS 5146 (SiS 5571)
Memory: 32MB RAM (4 x 8MB)
! If i install Debian Sarge with kernel 2.4 through debian-installer on
the same machine with 32MB memory, everything working good and
instalation successful !
Your's Sincerely, Petr Novak
deb_petr@seznam.cz
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<deb_petr@seznam.cz> wrote:
> My PC:
> CPU: AMD K6 166MHz
> MB: MS 5146 (SiS 5571)
> Memory: 32MB RAM (4 x 8MB)
>
> ! If i install Debian Sarge with kernel 2.4 through debian-installer on
> the same machine with 32MB memory, everything working good and
> instalation successful !
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Please do not use the 2.6 kernel with low memory machines. This kernel
> is larger and has larger memory requirements. We only support using the
> 2.4 kernel with low memory machines for the installation. If you really
> must, you can switch to 2.6 after you've installed Debian.
>
> This should probably be documented better.
Installing Debian on 32MB RAM machines is over for several releases, so
there is no point on this bug report, closing it.
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