Post #3222182
2026-05-27 05:31 UTC
[@dan](https://upvote.au/u/dan) [@RIotingPacifist](https://lemmy.world/u/RIotingPacifist) A "normal" debian starts by unpacking the initrd, which is into ram, so you'd need enough to cover that, plus initial runtime. Most likely you will need to tailor your initrd; i.e. go non-standard.
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@dan@upvote.au 2026-05-27 06:25
That's what I was thinking. I might try the cloud kernel (`linux-image-cloud-amd64`). It only has drivers required for VM platforms, so maybe the initramfs might be smaller? Otherwise I could build a custom one with just the things I need (only ext4 and swap, only drivers for KVM, etc). I'm trying Alpine as well, which looks promising.