Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting sylvain ferriol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > it's because os-prober depends on xfs, ext3, reiserfs,... > > but even in lowmem mode, i don't want to play with dependencies. so if a > module depends on others, d-i will load them. > > but now we can check if dependencies for all udebs are 'reall

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-13 Thread sylvain ferriol
W. Borgert wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:24:40PM +, W. Borgert wrote: - There is room for improvement: Some tools were installed without my consent/need: os-prober, lilo-installer, nobootloader - I can't remember all, sorry. Also I'm Now I tried again: reiserfs and xfs are downlo

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:24:40PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > - There is room for improvement: Some tools were installed > without my consent/need: os-prober, lilo-installer, > nobootloader - I can't remember all, sorry. Also I'm Now I tried again: reiserfs and xfs are downloaded as well, but

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting W. Borgert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > nobootloader - I can't remember all, sorry. Also I'm > not sure, whether the countrychooser could be optional > for lowmem. IMHO, the goal for lowmem on ia32 should be Countrychooser can probably be optional in lowmem mode. After all, its only pur

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:40:20PM +0200, sferriol wrote: > cd .trunk/installer/build/localudebs ... > dd if=net-drivers.img of=/dev/fd0 That was easy! This patch is good - I can now partition on my 24 MB machine. It seems that the memory limit is now about 21.5 MB (for i486, stone age hardw

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread sferriol
W. Borgert a écrit : On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:10:43AM +0200, sylvain ferriol wrote: this is the patch attached I applied the patch and can build anna*.udeb without problems. Where can I find information on how to create installation floppies using this .udeb? cd .trunk/installer/build/local

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:10:43AM +0200, sylvain ferriol wrote: > this is the patch attached I applied the patch and can build anna*.udeb without problems. Where can I find information on how to create installation floppies using this .udeb? Better: If such floppies exist somewhere, I would lik

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-02 Thread sylvain ferriol
W. Borgert wrote: i have changed anna to enable the user to select what he wants. and anna only download the selected packages (and dependencies too) Could you provide floppy images (boot.img/root.img/net-drivers.img) on some http-accessable place, please? I would like to test it. - there

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-02 Thread Thiemo Seufer
sferriol wrote: [snip] > i have changed anna to enable the user to select what he wants. > and anna only download the selected packages (and dependencies too) > > the current status is: > - i succeed to install in 24Mb (i select plip+partman-auto) > - i do not test with lesser memory (because i us

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-02 Thread W. Borgert
> i have changed anna to enable the user to select what he wants. > and anna only download the selected packages (and dependencies too) Could you provide floppy images (boot.img/root.img/net-drivers.img) on some http-accessable place, please? I would like to test it. > - there is not enough time

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-02 Thread sferriol
Thiemo Seufer a écrit : W. Borgert wrote: What is the target memory for the lowmem installation? 24 MB seems not to work. I had the hope, that ca. 16 MB would be the limit. 25-45 MB, depending on architecture. Some ideas for improvements: 1. Disable certain downloads/features. IMHO it is OK to

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-01 Thread Thiemo Seufer
W. Borgert wrote: > What is the target memory for the lowmem installation? > 24 MB seems not to work. I had the hope, that ca. 16 MB > would be the limit. 25-45 MB, depending on architecture. > Some ideas for improvements: > > 1. Disable certain downloads/features. IMHO it is OK to >have a