• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    I think Debian needs at least 64 megabytes of memory to boot? Or at least Debian-Installer needs that for its ramdisk? (I remember doing some convoluted jank to get Debian crammed on a machine with 32 megs of memory once.)

    Dunno how factual this is, I haven’t checked in a while

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      a trixie netinst iso says it needs 320mb to run the installer and that’s in lowmem mode where you have to pick and choose every installer component you want to load. and then it’ll still look like this: