Hello! I just spent some time trying to install Debian testing i386 (etch beta 2 release, netinst CD image) on a system with only 32 MiB of RAM... (No, I don't intend to use the system like that, but I thought I could already install it, albeit not having the final memory equipment at hand.)
After using the console for adding a swap partition, real problems nevertheless showed up at the time I was configuring the LVM setup: lvcreate was OOM-killed by the kernel, although there was swap space available. My work-around--after having tried once more--was then to borrow another 32 MiB of RAM from another system. In the documentation it is written that 32 MiB of RAM should be sufficient for installation. Another issue popped up when the installer was trying to install the main software packages (i.e. after installing the base system). The installation hung. Lacking a better idea, on the console, I killed the hanging apt-get and re-ran it by hand, chrooting into /target/. apt-get then prompted me to make the Debian CD available at /cdrom--which it was already. I interrupted the installer, removed the ``deb cdrom'' line from /target/etc/apt/sources.list and resumed installation having it retrieve the packages over the network. The installation went flawlessly then! :-) Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]