Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I was wondering if there was any speculation on what the minimum system > requirements for d-i are. > > Is 4MB, 8MB, 12MB enough ram? How close are things to any real RAM limit? More like 32 mb. There is a cool hack involving LVM and a live cd filesystem that should reduce this to the 8 mb range. > The current kernel used should make d-i usable on a 386 and newer for ia32 > arches due to math emulation being turned on? Dunno. > Does the installer require a CD-ROM drive or a network connection? I.e. > does the cd install work, and can one install via floppy disks? If it is > possible to install via floppy disks, what is the minimum requirements for > the disks? Single sided, single density? The CD install works and is the best supported install currently. One can also install via: - boot floppy(s) and cdrom - netboot and network - floppy(s) and network (currently broken; out of space) - usb storage device (in theory, too difficult to boot it though) - pile of floppies Minimum requirement for a floppy is one big enough for the largest udeb file you might want to place on it. > Can anna recover from download failures? High latency, corrupted packets, > low bandwidth are still issues that users deal with these days... although > TCP usually does a good job of recovering from corrupted packets. If it > does have the ability to recover, how nice is it? I belive it does checksumming, error recovery is one of our weakest points though. > The current discover was having problems with finding ISA devices unlike > an older version... Is this fixed? Is discover 2.0 out yet? Is discover > still used on the installer? A good test for this might be using boches' > ethernet card emulation. We don't probe ISA, since that locks up many machines. 2.0 -- no. discover -- yes. -- see shy jo
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