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 lowmem install with less features, e.g. LVM, RAID, > other FSs than EXT3/EXT2, etc. Who would use a 16 MB > machine with SW-RAID? :-) > > 2. Let the user select downloads/features. If the user does > have SCSI, SATA, etc. why download the stuff and eat RAM > disk space? > > 3. Let the user earlier create the partition table and the > swap space (and acitvate the latter) and download other > udebs later. > > 4. Use text instead of ncurses for debconf (lowmem is > English-only anyway). > > What do the d-i people think? You may want to read packages/lowmem/README in the SVN repository. The main reason the "lowmem" mode is so ineffective is that nobody did so far the work to make it better. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
