>> 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. Ah, cool. I probably need to reinstall soon, so should be able to test the new CD.