I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 "Etch" – Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20080218-14:15 on my old Dell Dimension 4100, and it went off
without a hitch.

Using the same disk, I tried to install it on my old Gateway Solo 1100
laptop (which has a Celeron processor, 64MB of RAM and a 5GB HD).

It seemed to be going fine (in "low memory mode") but during "Load
Installer Components from CD" the installation stalled trying to
retrieve zliblg-udeb. I was not able to get passed this point.

There's nothing wrong with the disk, since it was fine for the first
installation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory?

I would be grateful for any thoughts any of you might have about this.

Thanks & Best Regards,

Vwaju
New York City


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> There's nothing wrong with the disk, since it was fine for the first
> installation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory?
Yep :-)
debian installer needs almost 128Mb of ram :-(
U can try with old debian (potato?) and upgrade to actually stable.

Pol


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Pol Hallen wrote:
>> There's nothing wrong with the disk, since it was fine for the first
>> installation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory?
> Yep :-)
> debian installer needs almost 128Mb of ram :-(
> U can try with old debian (potato?) and upgrade to actually stable.
May be, sarge or woody?
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> May be, sarge or woody?
I found this:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h03s04.html.en

can u append some options to boot debian with lower memory.

Pol


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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 20:17:05 +0200, Pol Hallen (deben@fuckaround.org) wrote:

> > There's nothing wrong with the disk, since it was fine for the first
> > installation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory?
> Yep :-)
> debian installer needs almost 128Mb of ram :-(
> U can try with old debian (potato?) and upgrade to actually stable.

I have successfully installed Lenny (testing) with IceWM on a very old
laptop which has only 64MB RAM. Yes, it was slow, but it worked ok,
apart from the touchpad which would *not* work at all.

http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/st...h03s04.html.en suggests
that as little as 48MB is sufficient.

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