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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-04-28 11:38:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-04-28 11:38:57 +0200 |
| commit | 652818cb78f4a24f65b467f76a6d0369da26d3ea (patch) | |
| tree | e669f8f2f307203716df4d2ddf7e8cb33b1d5171 | |
| parent | d35bddb7bcecec07e75a06c270c27900d18aabee (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-652818cb78f4a24f65b467f76a6d0369da26d3ea.zip | |
Add note about the lowmem parameter in the memory requirement section.
Closes: #987701
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/memory-disk-requirements.xml | 9 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1c31eb8ad..a6569c945 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ installation-guide (20210306) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Charles Curley ] * preseed: Document comments syntax. Closes: #985853 + [ Samuel Thibault ] + * Add note about the lowmem parameter in the memory requirement section. + Closes: #987701 + -- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:02:59 +0200 installation-guide (20210305) unstable; urgency=medium diff --git a/en/hardware/memory-disk-requirements.xml b/en/hardware/memory-disk-requirements.xml index cd471071b..60479c6b3 100644 --- a/en/hardware/memory-disk-requirements.xml +++ b/en/hardware/memory-disk-requirements.xml @@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ fairly minimal numbers. For more realistic figures, see </para><para> +The installer normally automatically enables memory-saving tricks to be able to +run on such low-memory system, but on architectures that are less tested +it may miss doing so. It can however be enabled manually by appending the +<userinput>lowmem=1</userinput> or even <userinput>lowmem=2</userinput> boot +parameter (see also <xref linkend="lowmem"/> and +<xref linkend="installer-args"/>). + +</para><para> + Installation on systems with less memory<footnote condition="gtk"> <para> |