Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 06-Mar-2004, from http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/ uname -a: I'm on different install now Date: 10-Mar-2004 Method: from floppy then network on a previously prepeared ext3 filesystem from ftp.pl.debian.org, no proxy.
Machine: PC self made from trash parts
Processor: Pentium 120
Memory: 32M RAM
Root Device: IDE, hda1
Root Size/partition table: all on hda1, about 1700M
Output of lspci: I'm on different install now
This is intel/Zappa motherboard with chpiset 430FX, network card 3Com Etherexpress II TP (8 bit ISA).
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [E] Detect hard drives: [E] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] First kernel start [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
expert mode
Too small memory (32M).
As before I coped by removing all network modules after autodetection,
then removing all ide/pci modules, with the exception of piix.o,
before ide hardware detection.
Then a swap file and it run OK, kernel upload also OK (2.4.25).
GRUB OK, but after the rebott the machine reboots after it prints something about initrd (~5 lines of messages, total).
Will try with a rescue floppy now.
So it seems, the installed does not work on 32M, but with additional superexpert mode, where you choose which debian-installer components to skip and which modules to choose (no autoprobing), 32M shoudl be enough. On the other hand 24M seems impossible.
Cheers, Mikolaj
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