Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (2014-08-18):
> Now, hurd-i386 doesn't need caring about; kfreebsd-* architectures are
> looking quite badly already, so I won't change anything on those right
> now. I expect arm* people to tell us whether any change is needed for
> those, but since I see no menu anyway… This lefts us with powerpc
> which has no menu either.
> 
> => This means amd64 + i386 only, unless I'm missing something?
> 
> > +</para><para arch="powerpc">
> > +
> > +For &arch-title;, currently only an experimental <quote>mini</quote> ISO
> > +image is available<footnote id="gtk-miniiso">
> > +
> > +<para>
> > +The mini ISO image can be downloaded from a &debian; mirror as described
> > +in <xref linkend="downloading-files"/>.
> > +Look for <filename>netboot/gtk/mini.iso</filename>.
> > +</para>
> > +
> > +</footnote>. It should work on almost all PowerPC systems that have
> > +an ATI graphical card, but is unlikely to work on other systems.
> 
> => So no powerpc here I think.
> 
> I'd have to check an actual installation image under emulation, maybe;
> but I'm a bit too lazy for this right now. Worst case we could ping
> debian-powerpc@ to make sure.

I've now checked that indeed powerpc has had a graphical target for a
long while but it hasn't been used/advertised through boot menus, at
least from what I can tell by looking at the files under the
build/boot/powerpc directory in the debian-installer source package.

> > +<note><para>
> > +
> > +The graphical installer requires significantly more memory to run than
> > +the regular installer: &minimum-memory-gtk;. If insufficient memory is
> > +available, it will automatically fall back to the regular
> > +<quote>newt</quote> frontend.
> > +
> > +</para><para>
> > +
> > +If the amount of memory in your system is below &minimum-memory;,
> > +the graphical installer may fail to boot at all while booting the
> > +regular installer would still work. Using the regular installer is
> > +recommended for systems with little available memory.
> > +
> > +</para></note>
> 
> I'm not sure since I tend to use 1GB RAM every time, but I thought
> there was some fallback mechanism in place?

Except that I missed what Samuel mentioned. :-)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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