[linrad] Re: Debian

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I found on google this interesting things confirming what we have seen:


http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/01/msg01559.html


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> > Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook?  It's a 486/100 with
> > 24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk.  No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
> > PCMCIA ethernet card.  Screen about 30 cm.  Woody ran fine.
>
> Not unless you feel comfortable with setting up a swap partition
> manually as soon as the installer boots, in a shell. We currently lack a
> utility to do this automatic early enough to support less than 32 mb of

By the way, I confirm that beta-2 fails on 24Mb systems......tested in
the same conditions Joey did (VmWare) with the same result..:-)
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Quoting Erik Andersen (andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx):

> > By the way, I confirm that beta-2 fails on 24Mb systems......tested in
> > the same conditions Joey did (VmWare) with the same result..:-)
>
> And idea _where_ it fails?  i.e. Did you notice if any

While unpacking installer components after retrieving them, as far as
I can see.

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Another useful link, but for another architecture:

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/lowmem.html

An extract from there:

Installing Debian on Cobalt machines with little memory

Debian's installer requires 36 MB of memory in normal operation on MIPS 
based Cobalt machines. If your machine has less memory, you can still 
install Debian but the method may be different. Debian's installer 
supports a lowmem mode in which less functionality is available (and 
therefore the installer requires less memory). If you do not have enough 
memory for the lowmem mode, you can manually install a tar ball.

The following four different methods are available, depending on the 
amount of memory your Cobalt machine has:

   1. 36 MB or more: you can follow the normal installation procedure 
described in my guide.
   2. 25-35 MB: with this amount of RAM, Debian's installer will 
automatically enter lowmem level 1. Apart from a warning, you will see 
little differences to the normal installation procedure.
   3. 22-24 MB: Debian's installer will run in lowmem level 2. You can 
mostly follow the normal installation procedure but you have to manually 
choose some installer modules as described below.
   4. 21 MB or less: you won't be able to use Debian's installer but 
you can manually install Debian from a tar ball.




We are on the "3-" case  :-)


Hope it helps.
Ramiro.



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