On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 09:38 -0700, Lou Poppler wrote: [...] > Mar 30 14:17:28 base-installer: info: Using squashfs support for > /cdrom/live/filesystem.squashfs > Mar 30 14:17:28 anna-install: Installing squashfs-modules > Mar 30 14:17:28 anna[8759]: ERROR **: can't find packages file > Mar 30 14:17:29 kernel: [ 1011.708557] loop: module loaded > Mar 30 14:17:29 base-installer: error: /cdrom/live/filesystem.squashfs has > failed to be mounted as squashfs. > Mar 30 14:17:29 main-menu[227]: (process:8706): modprobe: FATAL: Module > squashfs not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.0-16-686 > Mar 30 14:17:29 main-menu[227]: (process:8706): mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on > /mnt failed: No such device > > ------ > I need to investigate more with this. At the failure point above, free RAM is > 212100 KB. What I am leaning toward suggesting is to modify the code in > lowmem-1.47/debian-installer-startup.d/S15lowmem > to allow the user to set lowmem=0 on the installer command line > (and add more detail to the install manual documentation of lowmem).
For comparison, I ran the same installer from the same debian-live-10.9.0-i386-cinnamon+nonfree.iso image copied to a USB stick, on the i686 netbook with 512 MB RAM. It installed OK, with no drama, and boots to the cinnamon desktop now.
