Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64
Hi,
Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/12/2020 23:23, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've tried debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-arm64-netinst.iso on a QEMU VM, the
> >> gtk installer refused to run with less than 578MiB (falling back to
> >> newt). I could successfully go through the rest of the gtk installer
> >> with that much (English, priority=low), though I'm not sure if that's
> >> enough for everything.
> >
> > Yes, we had reports in the past, where it failed in a later installation
> > step (I think it was partitioning). So I guess, we could go with something
> > like 640MB as the minimum setting (including some reserve).
>
> Probably. (I don't really know much about measuring RAM requirements.)
>
> >> Probably not tested enough to call it stable, but functionality-wise
> >> I think almost everything is in place. It's likely that the graphics
> >> won't work on some devices since their display modules might not be in
> >> the fb-modules udeb.
> >
> > Hmm, that smells like some potential for problems :-)
> > Maybe we could call it a "preview", if "experimentell" is a bit harsh?
>
> Sounds OK to me. Things should hopefully get better as more people test
> on their devices and report in. :)
It turned out, that this "preview" proposal brings in some formulating issues,
so I went back to the "experimentell" variant.
> >> In the GRUB menu it shows "Install" in the first place and "Graphical
> >> Install" in the second, so I think the character-based is the default
> >> for now.
> >
> > Ok, that's important info. I will change the paragraph accordingly.
> > (BTW: this fact could second the "preview"/"experimentell" state from above,
> > in the eyes of the users... ?)
>
> I think that's more related to the use-cases of the devices. AFAICT,
> most people are used to connecting to arm* devices over serial/ssh, but
> that's slowly changing as more arm64 laptops (or maybe even desktops?)
> get less niche.
Now pushed to git.
Holger
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