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  • Bug#266984: Installation-Reports

    From Russell Hires@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 04:40:09 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: installation-reports

    Debian-installer-version: 08/01/04, downloaded from debian.org.
    uname -a: whatever the root kernel image
    Date: 08/19/04
    Method: floppy installation for boot.img, root.img, net-drivers.img
    Network install after that from ftp.us.debian.org or ftp.uk.debian.org


    Machine: NEC Ready 9616
    Processor: Pentium 120
    Memory: 13980 (according to free)
    Root Device: /dev/hdd
    Root Size/partition table: n/a (see below)
    Output of lspci and lspci -n: n/a

    Base System Installation Checklist:
    [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

    Initial boot worked: [ O]
    Configure network HW: [ O]
    Config network: [ O]
    Detect CD: [ ]
    Load installer modules: [O ]
    Detect hard drives: [ O]
    Partition hard drives: [ ]
    Create file systems: [ ]
    Mount partitions: [ ]
    Install base system: [ ]
    Install boot loader: [ ]
    Reboot: [ ]

    Comments/Problems:
    The installation failed! I am currently stuck in an endless loop of two messages. The first one says that there is an error in downloading all the components. The second message says I'm in a low memory condition, "Entering low memory mode, will proceed in English, You should try to set up swap
    space" there is a <Continue> in red, which, if you push enter (or space) it takes you to a black screen that says "low memory mode," and then takes you back to the screen about the low memory condition.

    I tried to manually turn swap on (I have a previous debian install from
    woody), but the error I got was "Cannot stat device" I don't know how to get out of this low memory loop problem...I think that the installer runs out of memory when downloading various packages. I would have thought that the
    minimum for a low memory install is 8 MB.

    The installer should check for minimum memory first, then error out and refuse to install, or allow for swap space to be set up first.

    Russell Hires


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  • From Joey Hess@1:229/2 to Russell Hires on Fri Aug 20 12:30:12 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Russell Hires wrote:
    Machine: NEC Ready 9616
    Processor: Pentium 120
    Memory: 13980 (according to free)

    Sounds like maybe a 16 mb machine. I'm afraid our minimum memory
    requirement is 32 mb; this is set to go down to 24 MB soon, but 16 MB is
    still rather out of reach.

    The installation failed! I am currently stuck in an endless loop of two messages. The first one says that there is an error in downloading all the components. The second message says I'm in a low memory condition, "Entering low memory mode, will proceed in English, You should try to set up swap space" there is a <Continue> in red, which, if you push enter (or space) it takes you to a black screen that says "low memory mode," and then takes you back to the screen about the low memory condition.

    The installer is crashing due to being out of memory.

    The installer should check for minimum memory first, then error out and refuse
    to install, or allow for swap space to be set up first.

    It's hard to set up swap when you haven't the memory to download the
    kernel modules needed to access the disks.

    We do need a check for lower than minimum supported memory. Reassigning appropriatly.

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