Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> 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.