Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:33:24PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: normal not one single one of the 2.6 kernels - 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11 nor 2.6.12 - can be installed on a system with less than

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:19:25AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:

Bug#319823: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Mikko Rapeli
My firewall/mail gateway/shell host for 2-3 people is an old P90 with 40 mb of ram. It works well with Debian and I see no reason to upgrade the hardware. Woody installer worked perfectly back in the days and dist-upgrade to Sarge did too. I bet there are tons of home/small office gateways with

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 02:06, Steve Langasek wrote: I believe Joey Hess is the person who has the best handle on what the actual minimum requirements are for installing sarge. Joey, do you have anything we could add to the sarge release notes for this, if it's not already in there? The drop

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any given release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The answer might be architecture

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any given release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The answer might

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: kernel-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: normal not one single one of the 2.6 kernels - 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11 nor 2.6.12 - can be installed on a system with less than 48mb of RAM - because of the hungry memory requirements of the initial ram disk.

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: telling people to roll their own kernel (mr horms) isn't an acceptable option, either. i may be able to do that (mr horms) but other people won't be able to. you going (mr horms) to tell me and people like me that i should throw away

Bug#319823: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Matt Taggart
Luke, Sorry for the previous terse replies to your bug reports #319878 and #319823. The debian-kernel team gets a lot of email/bugs and sometimes is quick to response/close bugs without a lot of explanation. I think what horms was trying to say was that your bug report listed 2.6.5 as the

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Matt Taggart
Jurij Smakov writes... Honestly, it's a volunteer project and if you want support for something that's not there, the best way is just to roll up your sleeves. Flaming people will never get you anywhere. Our priorities are our users and free software The user's original bug report was

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi jurij, i invite you to think ahead to when the 2.4 kernel is no longer maintained. i invite you to consider where debian will stand at that time with respect to older hardware. should debian be possible to install on older hardware in two, three years time, or should people who are not as

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any given release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The answer might be architecture specific? ISTR either the d-i team or apt/dpkg/aptitude trying

Bug#319823: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:03:48PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: Luke, Sorry for the previous terse replies to your bug reports #319878 and #319823. The debian-kernel team gets a lot of email/bugs and sometimes is quick to response/close bugs without a lot of explanation. *sigh* yeh i know.

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes... i invite you to think ahead to when the 2.4 kernel is no longer maintained. i invite you to consider where debian will stand at that time with respect to older hardware. should debian

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:06:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Incidentally, I have no idea why this bug was filed against kernel-image-2.6-686; ... because i believed it to be a... wossisname... dummy package (2.6.N ... 2.6.NN) oops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: for this P120 (whatever) i have *shudder* had to use a 2.2.10-compact-pci kernel. there exists a kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 (which i might try at some

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-25 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: hi jurij, i invite you to think ahead to when the 2.4 kernel is no longer maintained. i invite you to consider where debian will stand at that time with respect to older hardware. should debian be possible to install on older