Riku Voipio wrote: > I've tired using Debian on nfsroot/nbd on a Linksys wap54g. Unfortunatly > I ran out of ram often, and swapping over nfs patches have disappeared > into the time, while swapping over NBD gained some serious lockups.. > An usb-slot seems to be necessary with current memory requirements of > a fully featured distribution. Yes, a 16 mb machine like the wap54g is a bit low on memory. I've not had any problems running debian on my 32mb WRT54GS, including running aptitude and the like. My current dream machine is the WL-500G Deluxe, which has 32 mb ram and 2 usb2 ports. Of course I'd not run gnome on it, but this size of memory can make for a nice little server. The only thing I anticipate having issues running is bittorrent. If I really need more memory, I can hook up a usb drive and swap to disk. > As for using d-i, how do you envision it to happen in practice? Even > getting a serial port requires soldering.. One way I see would be > using fully automatic installs. A more nice way would be to be able to > "cross-install" into creating preinstallable images on a faster host > systems. Both completly automated installs as well as an install that is automated through initial dhcp and then uses the existing network-console stuff that was developed for s390 to let you ssh into the installer. -- see shy jo
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