On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the people working on the documentation > (which includes the installation manual. Debian 2.1 is going to > be released next week so it is unlikely the 2.0 install manual > will be changed. Hopefully, if any changes are needed for the 2.1 > install, they'll be added. > > Jay Treacy > > On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:45:54PM +0200, Jordan Ilchev wrote: > > Hello Good Fellows at Debian, > > > > I am just installed Debian distribution to one old i486(with 4MB RAM) > > > > Thanks !!! :-) > > > > I found some problems about lowmemory installation section (7.2) of > > ?install.html?: > > > > If someone follow the instruction and "Create/Activate the swap > > partition."(64MB for example in my case), when normal installation starts > > you will be asked again to "Initialize and Activate the Swap Disk Partition" > > and at this point you CAN'T activate your swap partition becomes it?s > > working (busy) > > > > I think you must fix this confusion in install instructions !!! > > > > My solution was to make another small swap just for lowmemory install at > > ?/dev/hda4?, and leave my 64MB Swap for main installation
In my Dutch Debian Manual (http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/debian/handleiding) I wrote that low-mem users should _skip_ the `activate swap' step in the main installation menu, and just before the reboot, `ae /etc/fstab' and include one line for the swap partition. With an example of course: /dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0 "...and change /dev/hda8 to indicate your swap partition." Hoping this will be useful, regards, Anne Bezemer
