Bug#319823: closed by Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> (disagrees with d-i)
it's likely been improved, since. this was several years ago.
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System
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> #319823: kernel-image-2.6-686: 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM!!!
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> It has been closed by Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
> To: 319823-done@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:23:12 +0200
> Subject: disagrees with d-i
> reassign 319823 linux-2.6
> thanks
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> d-i is regulary tested, uses this kernels and specifies around 40mb as
> minimum for a running installer.
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> Bastian
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> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:30:41 +0100
> Subject: kernel-image-2.6-686: 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM!!!
> Package: kernel-image-2.6-686
> Version: 2.6.5-2
> Severity: normal
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> any system with 48mb of ram or less results in a kernel panic
> due to a lack of memory, at boot time.
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> 2.6 kernels use more memory, more resources... and now this.
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> welcome to bloatware, roll-on windows 3.1. urk!!
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Fri May 20 07:34:54 UTC 2005 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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> Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6-686 depends on:
> ii kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 2.6.5-4 Linux kernel image for version 2.6
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> -- no debconf information
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