Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 26/08/14 15:05, Samuel Thibault wrote: > [...] We can however do this early at boot: > > mount / -o remount,size=$(( $(grep ^MemTotal: /proc/meminfo | { read x y z; > echo $y; }) * 1024 ) > > notably before unpacking .udebs, S15lowmem would probably be a fine > place for this? (it notably al

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 15:49:32 +0200, a écrit : > In /proc/mounts, one can read for the rootfs on / a size= value, which > seems to be half the memory size. That's probably the culprit, perhaps > it can be worked around somehow for d-i at least. Indeed: static unsigned long shmem_de

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:48:30 +0100, a écrit : > On 26/08/14 14:15, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : > >> I should be able to help with that, I'll already be testing lots of > >> low-memory installs, in order to find a goo

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 15:46:25 +0200, a écrit : > Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : > > It's odd that there still seemed to be ~50% free memory when this > > problem happened, though. Is there some maximum size that the > > linux-i386 root ramdisk can g

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 26/08/14 14:15, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : >> I should be able to help with that, I'll already be testing lots of >> low-memory installs, in order to find a good size for the kfreebsd d-i >> ramdisks. > > Well, the testing has

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : > It's odd that there still seemed to be ~50% free memory when this > problem happened, though. Is there some maximum size that the > linux-i386 root ramdisk can grow to? There seems to be something odd somewhere indeed. Just trying

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 14:10:51 +0100, a écrit : > I should be able to help with that, I'll already be testing lots of > low-memory installs, in order to find a good size for the kfreebsd d-i > ramdisks. Well, the testing has to be done for each architecture, since that change quit

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 26/08/14 14:00, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 13:48:53 +0100, a écrit : >> Using: >> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso >> >> wheezy install guide suggests a minimum of 80MB RAM to run d-i. But >> e

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 13:48:53 +0100, a écrit : > Using: > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > > wheezy install guide suggests a minimum of 80MB RAM to run d-i. But > even with 128MB RAM, not choosing any additional

Bug#759336: linux-i386 lowmem install: anna fails with ENOSPC

2014-08-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Package: debian-installer Version: 20140802 Severity: important On 13/08/14 02:55, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (Looking at syslog when I can, it seems anna is the tool running into a > full partition, which isn't surprising.) [...] > I'm very concerned to see that Jessie Alpha 1 images were already >