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Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian



On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:44:34AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > > > I haven't seen any m68k machine, that uses ZIP RAM, but that stuff should be
> > > > lying around, somebody donated me a couple, but I think they are 1MB only.
> > > The A3000(T) takes ZIP/SIP ICs, and maxes out at 4 or 16 MiB.
> > To nitpick: it maxes out at 16+2 (Fast+Chip) on the mainboard. SCNR. ;)
> And debian-installer uses Chip RAM? ;-)

No, but the topic was about Amigas using ZIP Ram and when they're maxed out.
For d-i 16 MB is too less, regardless of being chip or fastmem... ;)

I'm remembering installing woody with 12 (+2) MB... it took me several days
of serious swapping until I interrupted and installed from potato... ;)
Dpkg was the memory hog there, using +20M.

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