Re: low memory requirements in the d-i manual

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Holger Wansing, le Sun 26 May 2013 14:02:19 +0200, a écrit :
> You must have at least &minimum-memory; of memory
> ---------->%-------------------------------------------------
> which expands to 80MB ATM.
> 
> But Chapter 3.4 contains:
> -----------%<------------------------------------------------
> <title>Recommended Minimum System Requirements</title>
> <tgroup cols="4">
> <thead>
> <row>
>   <entry>Install Type</entry>
>   <entry>RAM (minimal)</entry>
>   <entry>RAM (recommended)</entry>
>   <entry>Hard Drive</entry>
> </row>
> </thead>
> 
> <tbody>
> <row>
>   <entry>No desktop</entry>
>   <entry>64 megabytes</entry>
>   <entry>256 megabytes</entry>
>   <entry>1 gigabyte</entry>
> </row><row arch="not-s390">
>   <entry>With Desktop</entry>
>   <entry>128 megabytes</entry>
>   <entry>512 megabytes</entry>
>   <entry>5 gigabytes</entry>
> ---------->%-------------------------------------------------
> So a minimum of 64MB for console-only installs.
> But that is not enough for a successful installation, as Ferenc wrote.
> 
> OK for me to change the 64MB into 80MB as well ?

Well, these are the installed system requirement actually, not the
installation requirement.  We can probably simply put &minimum_memory;
to make sure it is up to date, but the other values probably need
updating too. I don't think one can reasonably work graphicall with just
512MiB nowadays :/

Samuel