-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > The annoying thing is that 128 mb of flash is enough to run Debian in, > but due to an infelicity of debootstrap it is not enough to install it > in. Debootstrap insists on retrieving the entire debian base system as > debs, and only after it has them all on disk, all wasting space, does it > unpack them. So you need 1.5 times the finished system size to install > Debian. There are two ways to make this better, either make it download > debs one at a time before unpacking them, or make it smarter so if it is > installing from a file:/ uri, don't copy the debs over at all, just make > symlinks.
Dear Joey, A possibile solution would be to be able to create /tmpfs mounts when using the new installer. If I have 128 Mb of flash and 128 Mb of memory, it would be suitable, wouldn't it? Cheers, Jean-Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAihKpextoHHj2YFMRAimsAJ9GoGQBJogvHrhXCvIGm+RUBH3NXgCgsefI m9KEFRWjHX7wNqu5REhmzss= =6oSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
