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limited-ram: document that having a swap partition will help
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# Kexec on Systems with Limited RAM
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When working with nixos-anywhere on systems with limited RAM (around 1GB), you
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can use the `--no-disko-deps` option to reduce memory usage during installation.
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## How it works
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* use the `--no-disko-deps` option to reduce memory usage during installation.
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* ensure the disk has a swap partition
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## How `--no-disko-deps` works
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The `--no-disko-deps` option uploads only the disko partitioning script without
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including its dependencies. This significantly reduces memory usage because:

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