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Bug#1032940: 1,5 gig disk not accepted by installer



Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote (Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:50:05 +0100):
> As the error message says: your disk was to small for automatic partitioning.
> With such minimal disk space, you get more flexibility, if you use manual 
> partitioning.
> With a 3G disk for example, I was able to perform a successful installation:
> create 600MB swap and the rest for / works fine so far.
> 
> Chapter 2.5 of the bookworm's installation-guide mentions 1160MB as minimum
> available disk space (920MB in bullseye).
> I seem to remember, that this value is the absolute minimal HDD space
> for the debian release, which means over all archs! 
> So, 1160MB might work for s390x or similar, amd64 might need more.
> That's why chapter 2.5 points to chapter 3.4 for "more realistic figures".
> And there it says "2G hard drive for 'No desktop' systems".
> 
> But as you say, 2G is not enough these days (a test confirmed that here).
> 
> So, we should set this to 4G IMHO.
> (A test installation with 3G disk space was successful here, when you do
> not waste to much space for swap, but let's not be that nitpicking.)

Objections? Comments?

Holger


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