Re: Bug#401889: [installation-guide] memory requirements for powerpc
Hi,
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.
>
>
> Objections?
no objections, so I close this bug.
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