On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:55:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Reasons for dropping 386 support are as follows: > > * d-i currently requires at least 20 megs of ram to install. My 386 > > had 4 megs of ram, which required using lowmem w/ potato's installer. I > > don't see standard d-i as being a viable option for installing debian on > > your 386 anytime soon. > I guess the lowmem version won't help either? The 20MB figure is an optimistic extrapolation from the most recent successful lowmem tests Joey Hess has done. > But still you can upgrade your woody i386 to sarge. Last time I > installed an i386 I was too lazy to wait loads of time and installed > the disk on a Pentibum, then moved the disk to its final location and > booted the i386. For that, it's not that problematic if the installer > doesn't support i386 as long as the installed system supports it. True, though this doesn't change any of the other problems with trying to support 80386 for sarge -- most notably, that there's no emulation patch available that doesn't contain a root hole, no one who seems comfortable working on a fix for this problem, and reservations from the kernel team about including such a Debian-specific patch in the mainline kernel packages. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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