On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:49:51 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:52:22 +0200 Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Maybe, but, as I said, that machine has a memory capacity equal to > > > 32 Mibyte (and has passed two full memtest86 runs with no > > > errrors). The debian-installer documentation claims it will run > > > with as little as 24 Mibyte... > > > > > > The memory requirements have grown recently. > > That's not good news for etch... :-( > > > > > I suppose you got the "low memory" initial screen, right? > > Yes, as I said. > > > > > The real memory requirements are not exactly known for post-sarge > > installer, as far as I remember. > > But I'm *not* installing etch, I'm trying to install sarge! > As released last june. That's Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0, nothing more, > nothing less...
Self-followup to inform you that I added a couple memory modules to
the machine and retried.
Now the machine has a memory capacity equal to 48 Mibyte (that's twice
the capacity debian-installer claims will suffice...) and the
installation completed successfully (at last!).
I repeat, it's sarge debian-installer (as released last june, 3.1 r0):
how can it require so much memory to run? :-(
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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