Hi Jonathan, apologies for not getting back earlier in chat!
On Tue, 2026-01-06 at 20:28 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > I have built updated installation images for Debian Ports, these can be > > downloaded from the usual location in the subfolder "2025-12-06”: > > I tried this image on a SPARCengine Ultra AXi with 256 MiB of RAM and it > failed > to boot. I suspect it ran out of RAM unpacking the initrd. > > Is there any way to make the initrd smaller or do I just need to find more > RAM? The initrd has grown due to growing size of the kernel module directory and debian-installer itself which is also part of the initrd image. In the past, the installer had support for low-memory configurations but I think that is no longer the case. I can definitely look into options to create a low-memory installation image like we had in the past, however that will take some time due to the many other things on my TODO list. As a workaround, you can install a minimal Debian system using qemu-system and later just copy the installed system onto the disk of your target system. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
