On Nov 8, 2007 10:32 AM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aubrey Li wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2007 10:12 AM, Sanjay Nadkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Shawn Walker wrote: > >> > >>> On 07/11/2007, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> One of my colleagues complains Indiana can't install on his 256M-memory > >>>> box. > >>>> He said the Indiana installer demands at least 512M memory, is that true? > >>>> If so, can this issue be worked around? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> It's true for now; I believe there is work to reduce it in the future. > >>> > >>> > >> To be precise, there may be some work to reduce the size of microroot > >> which will enable a live CD to boot on systems with less 512MB. However > >> there are no specific plana on making it install on 256 MB systems. > >> However, that does not preclude someone from creating a new distro > >> (using the distro constructor + some work:-) that would address this > >> class of systems. > >> > >> > > So we'll boot on systems with less 512MB memory by livdCD. But we can't > > install. > > This doesn't make any sense! > > > > Is there any reason why 256MB systems doesn't work? The whole CD is just > > ~700MB, > > what eat up the available memory? > > > > -Aubrey > > > > > Hello, > > you misunderstood: There are efforts to get it booted and / or installed > on systems with less than 512MB, eg. 384MB. > But nobody is *currently* working on going down to support systems with > a config as low as just 256MB. > > What eats up the mem: The root image needs to be fully copied into its > associated ramdisk, and hence mem. > That has to do with how the Grub-based Newboot framework happens to be > implemented (for various good reasons). If you wanna reduce mem > requirements, your only option is to put things out of the mini-, micro- > or ultra-micro root-fs image. > Certain people, including Moinak Ghosh, Sanjay Nadkarni and certainly > others are striving to further reduce the size of the root image. > And have done a very good job already. > Let me clarify my question, why installer stop the user to install Indiana on a less-512MB system? The miniroot currently is IPSed set of packages. I can remove any package I don't need. SXCE can work on 256MB system, if I recall correctly. why indiana does not? I really don't believe that!
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