Bug#401889: memory requirements for powerpc
Package: debian-installer-manual severity: wishlist Hi, the following memory requirements for powerpc should be documented in the manual, because booting with too little memory results in strange effects / error messages, which especially people new to powerpc will not understand, and therefor think the installer is broken for there machine. d-i: recommended is 48mb, might work with less, but on newworld it sureley doesnt boot with 32mb. (tested with daily cd from 2006-12-04). 64mb is still low-mem. d-i: recommended is 128mb. works with 96mb, but partioning is buggy then. (it crashes and comes back, so it's usable, but really not recommended. With 96mb the main partition would reliably have no mount point set, with 160 mb this is no problem.) If you point me to the proper file, I'm happy to submit a patch for this bug. regards, Holger pgpiJHvo5x2iv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#401889: memory requirements for powerpc
Goood Morning, On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:53:03 +0100 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d-i: recommended is 48mb, might work with less, but on newworld it sureley doesnt boot with 32mb. (tested with daily cd from 2006-12-04). 64mb is still low-mem. The following paragraph belongs to graphical installer I think. d-i: recommended is 128mb. works with 96mb, but partioning is buggy then. (it crashes and comes back, so it's usable, but really not recommended. With 96mb the main partition would reliably have no mount point set, with 160 mb this is no problem.) If you point me to the proper file, I'm happy to submit a patch for this bug. That is mentioned at at least two places in the manual (this could be improved though): /trunk/manual/en/preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml /trunk/manualen/preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml AND: Maybe that should be mentioned in the installer itself? (on the boot prompt press F1: You need at least 24 MB of RAM to use this installer.) regards, Holger Kind regards Holger :-) -- Created with Sylpheed 2.0.4 under Debian GNU/LINUX 3.1 Sarge Registered LinuxUser #311290 Spam filtering by bogofilter.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
