Bug#410596: installation-report: successfull installation on AlphaStation 500/266 (64MB)

Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 16:47, Pablo Ripolles wrote: Comments/Problems: the installation has been started with the following SRM command: boot dka200 -fi boot/vmlinuz -fl "ramdisk_size=17084 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall priority=low"

Bug#410596: installation-report: successfull installation on AlphaStation 500/266 (64MB)

Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD (netinst) Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso Date: 25th March 2007 Machine: AlphaStation 500/266 Processor: DECchip 21164 processor running at 266 MHz Memory

Bug#410596: lowmem

Pablo Ripolles wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:05, Frans Pop wrote: Note that the change Steve was included in _all_ images available from [1] quite some time back. After discussing this on IRC, it appears I misunderstood. You did use a current CD, not Steve&#

Bug#410596: lowmem

Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:12:25AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:05, Frans Pop wrote: Note that the change Steve was included in _all_ images available from [1] quite some time back. After discussing this on IRC, it appears I misun

Bug#410596: lowmem

Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:05, Frans Pop wrote: Note that the change Steve was included in _all_ images available from [1] quite some time back. After discussing this on IRC, it appears I misunderstood. You did use a current CD, not Steve's image. yes indeed! i

Bug#410596: lowmem

Hello again :( Steve, this image: http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/alpha-lowmem.img I finally couldn't try it, I had no option of netbooting. Now, the problem of not allowing the installation on low mem (64MB) alpha systems persists. That

Bug#410596: [Fwd: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)]

Frans Pop wrote: (No need to CC the developers when replying. We see the answers on the mailing list.) On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:25, Pablo Ripolles wrote: after i do "Load installer components from CD" (without loading any optional installer modules, so no crypto-modules,

Bug#410596: [Fwd: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)]

Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 19 February 2007 19:11, Pablo Ripolles wrote: as i said, i had tried all possibilities, i excluded all the unnecessary modules. in fact, to "Detect and mount the CD-ROM" (stage in which d-i allows to un/select all the unnecessary kernel modules) th

Bug#410596: [Fwd: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)]

Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:11:49PM +0100, Pablo Ripolles wrote: Probably a lot more of these are "unnecessary" then you would think -- to minimize your memory consumption (which is the point of having a low-memory mode after all), you should select *o

Bug#410596: [Fwd: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)]

Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 08:18:45PM +0100, Pablo Ripolles wrote: I haven't looked at the low-memory mode menu in quite some time. Do you have the option at this point to mount swap space? That's the only way you're going to get enough virtual memor

Bug#410596: [Fwd: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)]

Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:51:55PM +0100, Pablo Ripolles wrote: recently i've submitted an installation-report associated to a failed etch installation (CD netinst method) on an AlphaStation 500/266. this post is mainly because i suspect that it might be an

Bug#410596: (process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)

Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD (netinst) Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso Date: 11th February 2007 Machine: AlphaStation 500/266 Processor: DECchip 21164 processor running at 266 MHz Memo