Matt Domsch wrote:
Indeed, a network install with 128MB just doesn't work;
Something
called 'exe' gets hung trying to install glibc. :-(
I noticed that the RAM file systems in use are actually ramfs, not
tmpfs, so even after swap is enabled, swap can't be used as backing
store for the files we're downloading, some of which are quite large.
Doesn't the installer's "stage2" filesystem get put into "swap
space"
on low-memory machines during a network install?
Doing a local CD-ROM install did succeed on this same system, which
leads me to think that the ramfs->tmpfs switch might be beneficial for
exactly this reason.
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