Jason White <[email protected]> writes: > Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: >> Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > it's been a very long time since i tried to install debian on a system >> > with only 256M...i'm not entirely sure it will work. it should *run* >> > OK-is once it's installed but the installer may require more than 256M >> > (the debian package list is *huge*) >> >> Last time I tried it, IIRC with wheezy when it was testing, you can boot >> w/256M, but you can only install w/256M if the udebs are available on >> local media -- i.e. it doesn't need to dl them into memory first AND >> unpack them into memory. > > What happens if you boot a live medium (GRML is my preferred option, but there > are many others) and run debootstrap? As I remember, GRML has scripts to > automate the installation by running Debootstrap and then creating > configuration files.
I didn't try it. It would probably require about as much ram for a minimal live environment as for d-i (which is, after all, a live environment itself). If both are local media, the results should be comparable. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
