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Bug#401889: marked as done (memory requirements for powerpc)

Your message dated Mon, 13 Aug 2018 22:24:45 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#401889: [installation-guide] memory requirements for powerpc
has caused the Debian Bug report #401889,
regarding memory requirements for powerpc
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer-manual
severity: wishlist

Hi,

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.)

If you point me to the proper file, I'm happy to submit a patch for this bug.


regards,
	Holger

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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 closing this bug.


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