Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-13 20:28]: > Breaking ext2 support out into a partman-ext2 would also be > possible; it could probably be a quite small udeb that relies on > partman-basicfilesystems for templates and code and only pulls in > the ext2-modules and provides the flag files to

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-14 02:30]: > > That's essentially lowmem level 1. > > Hmm. If that is true and so in lowmem 1 all packages that are normally > used are still installed, then it seems to me that tbm may have set his > limits wrong... No, but I'm talking about lowmem leve

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 July 2006 02:19, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > Alternative idea: > > The main cause of memory overruns currently seems to be caused by > > memory used by translations. Could we easily introduce a new lowmem > > level that runs as normal, but only in English? > > That's essent

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > An option would be to have a file with a list of udebs that should be > selected by default and have anna read that. This list could easily be > made architecture dependent. > For i386 (and probably most other arches) I would put partman-ext3 and > maybe some driver module ude

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Alternative idea: > The main cause of memory overruns currently seems to be caused by memory > used by translations. Could we easily introduce a new lowmem level that > runs as normal, but only in English? That's essentially lowmem level 1. -- see shy jo signature.asc Desc

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 July 2006 04:59, Sylvain Ferriol wrote: > > Is there a way to specify for a sub-arch which udebs are required > > even in lowmem level2? > > may be we can set by default in the list all packages selected in a > normal mode That does not sound like a very good idea. If the user accepts

Re: lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-13 Thread Sylvain Ferriol
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:53:17PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I just had to increase the limit of level2 on ARM so it will still > work. The problem now is that the installation on a specific device > runs in level2 and you have to manually choose ext3 and > scsi/usb-storage (the device has

lowmem level2 and udeb choices

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I just had to increase the limit of level2 on ARM so it will still work. The problem now is that the installation on a specific device runs in level2 and you have to manually choose ext3 and scsi/usb-storage (the device has USB, no IDE). I'm sure that lots of users will forget to activate all mod