Re: Avoiding low-memory warning in preseed mode

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 15:56, Fred Boiteux <fbpros@free.fr> wrote:

> When launching the install of a Debian Buster 10.1 on a VM with a small
> memory footprint (512Mb), I get a warning from the Debian installer
> about entering in low-memory mode. I would like to have a
> non-interactive installation using a preseed file, but I didn't found
> how to avoid this warning which blocks installation until I manually
> validates the message in console. I've digged on Internet, and tried
> following preseed paragraph, without success :
>
> d-i lowmem/low note
>
> Does someone can tell me which sentence is supposed to be used in
> preseed file to skip this manual validation ?

Hi Fred

I do not know the answer, but I can tell you what I would try:

d-i lowmem/low boolean true
d-i lowmem/insufficient boolean true

You can see the sentences in the code here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/lowmem/1.47/debian/lowmemcheck.templates/

I showed "true" as an example. But I can't know if you
need "true" or "false" because it depends
which button in the dialog is the one you want.

Also I don't know if you need one, or both lines, because
you did not provide the exact text of the message.

Please reply to advise if you have success or failure.