Re: low memory requirements in the d-i manual
Hi,
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
That's not exactly clear:
"..., check that your hardware will let you do the type of installation that
you want to do. "
> 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 :/
This mostly depends on which graphical environment is used. I assume that
xfce4 works fine with 512MB, at least at default configuration without adding
tons of additional apps to the panel etc.
But at the end, you are right.
Eventually we could be done with the double of the old values:
Desktop minimal requirements: 128MB -> 256MB
Desktop recommended: 512MB -> 1GB
?
Holger
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