Kernel cannot fit in Memory.

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Shishir Jha wrote:

> Having installed K12LTSP successfully many labs, this time around I shifted
> my attention to edubuntu, I installed edubuntu 7.04 well in a PIV 3.06 Ghz,
> 2GB Ram, server and for trial booted off my laptop, which is pretty new with
> Pentium M processor. But the strange thing is when I wanted to boot off, a
> thin client with 32MB Ram, it showed me the error "Kernel Cannot fit in
> Memory" when the kernel is being loaded in the client. Further I added
> another 32MB Ram and still the same error. The problem is obvious that the
> Kernel cannot fit in the RAM, but I had read and even talked in the IRC and
> was told that people have booted off clients with 32MB Ram. Is something
> else wrong, any help could be highly appreciated.

I would have doubted 32MB RAM would be enough for a thin client, but I'd
have thought it would be enough for just the kernel.  This thread on the
LTSP mailing list seems like it might be relevant.

http://riverdale.k12.or.us/mailarchives/k12ltspdig/960.html

The documentation doesn't seem to actually quote a specific amount of RAM,
though I would imagine to get 32MB working well you'd at least need nbd
swap working.  It should still be able to load the kernel though.

http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/handbook/C/server-hw.html#id2751308

Gavin