On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:05:25AM +0100, Christian Brandt wrote: > Wouter Verhelst schrieb: > > >Hmm. How about something that uses libparted which just checks whether > >any "useful" partitions have already been created, prompts the user > >whether it's okay to use those partitions, and pulls in the partitioner > >if it's not? I'd think such an application would not require as much RAM > >as the full-blown partitioner, though I'm not sure. > > Why not just call good'n'old /sbin/fdisk in case of memory problems or > offer it as an alternative? It is perfectly happy with 500-1500kB and > superior to most alternatives which would require partitioning and > installing in another system or use multiple rescue-systems in odd > enviroments to tame the pain of low mem. We have a d-i package which does this called partitioner, but it's effectively unmaintained. My personal goals for m68k is to keep the mainline installer working on it, however slowly. > Another option would be a totally reduced rescue system with not more > than a shell, some basic network- and setup-tools and then require the > use of the "install debian to a sub-directory-mountpoint" from the > installation manual. Sure, thats a rather rough approach but ONE single > and flexible rescue disk as a last fallback isn't too bad in my books. d-i has a rescue option, although I haven't played with it yet. > That still wouldn't increase performance of the final OS on old > systems but at least one could install Debian and then decide if it is > usefull. I don't really have much complaint about the performance of the final OS, but all the m68k machines I use have greater than 80MB of RAM and are 040 or better. For those interested in looking at the current lowmem implementation, that would be in packages/lowmem. We could sure use help with d-i (and gcc for that matter). -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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