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Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian



Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:35:43PM +0300, nzabrod wrote:
> 
>>>Typically Amigas are maxed out at 128 MB Fast Ram on the accelerator card
>>>(plus any other "FastRAM", which is attached via ZorroII/III bus or on the
>>>mainboard, but that's comparably slow with 13 MB/s), because there are
>>>usually no more CAS lines. 
>>>So, even when you would have 64 MB PS/2 SIMMS, you would only have 128M on a
>>>(let's say) CyberStorm MK2 accel card... 
>>
>>The problem is: If you will actually find 128MB Simm on eBay, nobody will give you a warranty, that it WILL work in your AMIGA. =(
>>And about installer requrements: I think, that Amigans need really simplified installer, that will install only basic packages like gcc/libc, asm, essential libraries, make, autoconf... and all that stuff, that needed to build OTHER packages. Also SSHD, FTPD are really reqired, AFAIK. 
>>Also I think, that ppl, who use linux on amiga are more technically educated, and most of them know, what they are doing - they don't need a GUI-based installer (yes, it's handy, but it eats resources). So, I like netbsd way of installing. After generic install I get system, ready to build packages and it capable of handling ssh access (I don't have a monitor, so I connect amiga to TV on install time) and ftp access (I can upload/download files).
>>In most cases it's really enough to start your m68k-linux life. And for Debian we have LARGE pre-compiled amount of packets. Future is not so dark =). 
> 
> 
> Have you installed with debian-installer lately? The GUI is text-based.
> You have the option of installing no more than base (which is less than
> build-essential + openssh-server). The main ram hog is the partitioner
> -- now if we could just skip that part .... ;)

Well, can't you skip that part if your disk is already partitioned? If
not, maybe one should file a wishlist bug about that...

Cheers

Luk

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