installer help screen (Was: Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements)

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

a follow-up on this regarding installer help screen:

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote (Tue, 8 Aug 2023 00:06:14 +0200):
> amd64:minimum_memory_strict=350
> amd64:minimum_memory=780
> 
> arm64:minimum_memory_strict=245
> arm64:minimum_memory=260
> 
> armel:minimum_memory_strict=140
> armel:minimum_memory=190
> 
> armhf:minimum_memory_strict=140
> armhf:minimum_memory=190
> 
> i386:minimum_memory_strict=285
> i386:minimum_memory=485

Looking at this values (the current ones from lowmem), we have 350MB for
amd64 and 285MB for i386.
The installer help screen F2 has the 285MB value (grabbed from i386 ?) even on 
the amd64 image.

Should this be sync'ed somehow?

(Of course, bumping this value from 285 to 350 means, that the i386 installer
help screen says "350MB needed", which is strictly not correct, but that's 
not a blocker IMO ?)


Or another approach:
should we rephrase this similar to what we have now on
https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch02s05.html
to say something like 
"We recommend xx MB of RAM" 
instead of 
"You need at least xx"
?

Or even 
"You must have at least 350 megabytes of RAM to use this Debian installer,
but we recommend a minimum of 512 megabytes."



Holger



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