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Re: Bogus low-memory mode



Donald Allen, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 17:01:52 -0400, a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > Donald Allen, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 16:45:56 -0400, a écrit :
> >> so I don't think it's possible to run the system on
> >> that machine.
> >
> > Well, it's the installer which will refuse to start, because 256MiB is
> > indeed too short, but you should be able to run an already-installed
> > system, by dumping the pre-installed image into the disk. Not trivial,
> > but should be feasible.
> 
> But if I attempt to do that, I'm guessing the installed system will
> think there's 256MB rather than the actual 2GB

Yes.

> and run poorly as a result?

256MiB is not that bad, but that won't permit to build big packages for
instance, yes.

Samuel


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