Re: d-i minimum system requirements
Am 2003-09-25 11:40:09, schrieb Drew Scott Daniels:
>Arg, resending...
>
> Drew Daniels
>Hi,
>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?
4 MByte: Try the old good SLINK with the LowMem-Disks
8 MByte: Will work with SLINK LowMem-Disks too
12 MByte: Yea, SLINk Srandard Floppys are working.
The POTATO LowMem will do too.
16 MByte: POTATO and WOODY with standard Disks will work...
(Dont Ask about the Speed of installation)
I have installed WOODY 3.0r1 on a Toschiba T1950CT with 66 MHz and 12 MB
of Memory and 340 MB Hard-Disk. Syslinux does not work so I have made a
Dos-Partition of 3 MByte with the modified Win95b-Bootdisk (I like this
Floppy with loadlin and rawread) to put MS-DOS 7.02, loadlin.exe, linux
and the root.bin onto it.
Used the bf4.2 Disks. The Laptop is fully suported with this Disks ;-)
Installed the 4 Drivers-Disks from Floppy. Configurung the Modules is
the hell with 12 MByte of memory !!!
Done this I have downloaded via PCMCIA-NIC (3c589-D) the 'base' from my
Workstation whitch have a full Debian-Mirror.
Dont ask about the time consumed !!! - Around 5 hours to install the
Basedebs !!!
>The current kernel used should make d-i usable on a 386 and newer for ia32
>arches due to math emulation being turned on?
Now, - You crazzy horse ask about 386 ???
OK, 386 Computers support only 16 MB of Memory !!! Even you have a fast
40 MHz CPU it will be the Hell !!!
Installing a small Modem/ISDN-Router on a 486 Machine in a resonabel time
need 32 MByte of memory to install and 16 MByte of memory for working.
I think, the installation of SARGE with the d-i reqires minimal 16 MByte
of memory and a CPU 486dx4/100.
>Does the installer require a CD-ROM drive or a network connection? I.e.
It works from Floppy... (CD is optional)
>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?
HD - 1.68 MByte
>Can anna recover from download failures? High latency, corrupted packets,
>low bandwidth are still issues that users deal with these days... although
??? - Where Do you live ???
In Africa ??? Last Place in Congo ??? (Nice holliday here)
Or do you install via Cell-Phone and 9600 BpS ???
;-)
>What other minimum requirements are there?
Around 20 US$ an internet connection and an eBay-Account
<http://www.ebay.com/> to get a resonabel Computer...
>I'll look at doing some testing on Boches again once I have time.
>
> Drew Daniels
Greetings from Strasbourg
Michelle
--
Registered Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.
Reply to: