Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hi,
Debian-installer keeps growing, which makes installing on low-ram machines harder as time goes by. Sometimes such growth is necessary; in other cases, the memory footprint grows to add features which admittedly are nice, but aren't required for every installation. Consider, for example, the following udebs: partman-lvm partman-crypto partman-*fs partman-md While these all add functionality that allows one to do interesting things with debian-installer, it is also true that they all require memory to be used for functionality of which at least some is not going to be used during any random install session. At least, I don't expect many people to be interested in a system which contains one reiserfs partition, one ext3 partition, an ext2 one, and some JFS and XFS partitions, too -- all this on LVM on RAID, with swapspace encrypted. Some people might be, but they're probably just testing d-i's functionality... Of course there's lowmem which helps in reducing RAM usage, but I suspect that the memory usage of these modules has more impact on the actual memory footprint than whatever lowmem may do. Case at hand: my latest install run on my VME box (which has 64M of RAM, and no way to extend that) failed due to a segfault somewhere (which I suspect may be related to low-ram conditions), where it previously never did. Unfortunately, there is no way for me to disable downloading these modules, so I have to load them all. It would be preferable if I could just tell d-i somehow that of the above modules, I'm only interested in partman-ext3 and that it does not need to load any of the other modules. This could perhaps be nice for other things beside partman-*, too, although I don't know about that in too much detail. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-powerpc Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]