Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Eugen Paiuc wrote:

> Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:42:39PM +0100, Christian Brandt wrote:
> >  
> >
> > >Stephen R Marenka schrieb:
> > >
> > >    
> > >
> > > >I think you'll need more ram for any of the modern debian installers to
> > > >work. I think something like 40MB is currently the lower limit, but it
> > > >could be higher.
> > > >      
> > > >
> > >The recent trend to "more ram" could make debian-m68k pretty pointless
> > >within one or two release cycles: Most m68k-systems just don't have 64 or
> > >256MB of RAM, we are lucky having 16MB of RAM.
> > >    
> > >
> >
> >Well it doesn't cost much to add RAM and most old macs and amigas, at
> >least, can take it.
> >  
> >
> 
> have you an URL for ?

For Macs,

http://www.jagshouse.com/lowendmacfaq.html#Q2.4.1
http://home.earthlink.net/~tomscomputertips/tc14.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/schematics.html

This is not the last word, though. For example, given the right ROM 
upgrade, some early 030's will go to 128 MB, IIRC. Also, the sites above 
do contradict each other sometimes.

-f

> >[snip...]
> >This is kind of interesting after the recent post about debian/m68k
> >being so superior in speed to netbsd.
> >  
> >
> have you an URL for ?
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Eugen Paiuc
> 
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