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Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64



On 4/28/19 10:40 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> That's pretty bad!
> 
> I stuffed my old Ultra 10 with 512MB, but the machine originally came with
> only 256MB.
> 
> How can the installation system eat so much memory?

It shouldn't. There is even a lowmem udeb which reduces the memory footprint [1].

I could even install with debian-installer on my Amiga 1200 with 64 MiB.

Please don't necessarily take tests on qemu as a reference. Rather test on real
hardware.

Adrian

> [1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lowmem.html

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