Debian Installer BUG: document that 2.6 kernel is not installable on 32MB RAM machine
<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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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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