Adam Thornton wrote: > Yeah, but if you're running under VM, your virtual machine can be quite > small. 32M is perfectly reasonable for a machine that is going to, say, > be a router for a virtual network. Your physical box is going to be a > great deal larger, but your virtual machine doesn't have to be. > > > All that lowmem does is use debconf to ask a question. It may be that > > this happens before the s390 terminal is set up properly for debconf to > > work or something, but it has to happen before the regular bterm frame > > buffer setup on i386. > > Can the order of "is it lowmem? am I on s390-console?" be switched, > then? That'd probably fix it. Another alternative would be to fix the > lowmem threshold at 32M for S390 and simply say, "you must install in at > least a 32M virtual machine; you can shrink it after install if you > want."
Running lowmem a little bit later seems like the solution, but it's easy to break things by this kind of change and this is worth delaying the release by amother 3 days (minimum) Would you like an errata item? If so write one up. -- see shy jo
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