I use boot.img, root.img, net-drivers.img from the sarge-i386-netinst.iso of 2004-05-29.
HW: mid-1990s laptop (486DX4+SL 100MHz, 24MB RAM, 520MB HD) with floppy disk, PCMCIA-net, VGA colour graphics, sound, serial and parallel port, but no USB/CD-ROM/firewire. Whether in simple or in expert mode, a lot of udebs are downloaded, which I would like to prevent: firewire, jfs, lvm, md, reiserfs, ntfs, xfs, scsi, sata... Worse, the download of one or another "useless" (for me!) component fails: [!!] Download installer components Failed to load installer component Loading reiserfsprogs-udeb failed for unknown reasons. Aborting. (most times it is some scsi udeb, that fails) Instead of trying to continue with the other udebs, after failing the installation does stop somehow. If I finally get all modules somehow, things are still not OK: a simple 'ps ax' on vt2 gives me: PID Uid VmSize Stat Command Killed Not enough memory? Of course, at this point I could have setup swap, because I already have a swap partition, but the installer itself did not give me the possibility. Final remark: It seems to me, that the lowmem install has room for improvement. lowmem install is a very important thing to have for users in the "developing world", for embedded systems, and for nostalgic geeks. If d-i is just not the right tool for lowmem installation, it would be nice to have miniconda (mini-Anaconda) support Debian. According to http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/miniconda.php, "Miniconda will install in as little as 12 MB of RAM. Michael Fratoni managed to force an install in 8 MB, but the results are not consistant..." -- this .signature intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]