Hello List, > > How much RAM can you fit in a Sun-3? Debian-Installer needs > quite some RAM > > these days... > > We've had a successful test at 24MB. I'm rather hoping some changes I > have planned will drop that to 16MB, without changing the form of d-i. > After that, we'll have to get a bit more radical. I'd like to see how > low we can go, but don't plan on any of that for sarge. On ATARI RAM is also an issue. so this weekend I tested the debian installer on my three falcons with the following setup: Falcon with CT060 (full MC68060 card by Rodolphe Czuba), 512 mb FastRAM, 14 mb ST-RAM, Videl (640x480x256) Falcon with Afterburner (full MC68040), 64 mb FastRAM, 4 mb ST-RAM, NOVA (1024x768x256) stock Falcon (MC68030/68882), 14 mb ST-RAM, Videl (640x480x256) Although I am using MiNT/N.AES mainly I tested every machine with TOS 4.04. These are the results: Falcon/AB: bootstra.prg (Version 3.2) starts but complains: Unable to allocate memory (only 4 mb ST-RAM) Falcon/CT060 and Falcon030: attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw:0, want 7511, limit=4096 Ext2-fs error (device ramdisk (1,0)) ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block-inode = 987, block 7510 kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel (I have written down this error message, so its the actual output written on screen). I also tried a woody installation with my Falcon/CT060, there the installation starts but unfortunately a lot of error messages are printed onto the screen. /dev/ttyS2, no such device, /dev/ttyS4, no such device etc. (this error messages is written down from my memory, perhaps the actual output is a little bit different :-))
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