Bug#401889: [installation-guide] memory requirements for powerpc
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> > On Jul 28, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>:
> >> the following memory requirements for powerpc should be documented in the
> >> manual, because booting with too little memory results in strange effects /
> >> error messages, which especially people new to powerpc will not understand,
> >> and therefor think the installer is broken for there machine.
> >>
> >> d-i: recommended is 48mb, might work with less, but on newworld it sureley
> >> doesnt boot with 32mb. (tested with daily cd from 2006-12-04). 64mb is still
> >> low-mem.
> >>
> >> d-i: recommended is 128mb. works with 96mb, but partioning is buggy then. (it
> >> crashes and comes back, so it's usable, but really not recommended. With 96mb
> >> the main partition would "reliably" have no mount point set, with 160 mb this
> >> is no problem.)
> >
> > Since powerpc is no longer a release-arch, and the things are most likely to
> > behave different with ppc64el, I would close this bug.
>
> It’s not a release arch, but still maintained in Debian Ports.
>
That's right, but because of this we no longer have to consider the powerpc
arch for a release document.
Holger
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