> > 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. > I just tested the installer in VMWare with 32M ram, the ramdisk got 100% filled while loading the installer modules (with no extra modules selected). The ramdisk was 14.8M. Then I changed the amount of ram to 64MB wich resulted in a ramdisk of 30.6M wich got filled for 52% (15.8M). AFAIK loading the installer modules is the last step wich takes (much) space on the ramdisk, so parhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to increase the size of the ramdisk to 16M (when 32M ram is installed), that way you can install on a system with 32M of ram. -- Regards, Tim Vandermeersch Belgian skolelinux team http://i18n.skolelinux.bo/belgium
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