Re: rc4 test (was Re: summary from the irc meeting 2007-07-09)
[Maximilian Wilhelm]
> Do you really want to set this requirement so low?
Well, as the real minimum sizes are lower, why not.
This is the sum of the current minimum partition requirements in MiB
for the different profiles and profile combination.
amd64/i486 ppc/newworld ppc/prep
90edumain 1655 2872 2879
91edumain+ltsp 5720 5867 5874
92edumain+ws 4754 4755 4762
94edultsp 6722 6723 6230
96eduwork 5030 5031 5038
As you can see, the largest number is 6723 MiB. So 8 MiB would
probably work, as long as not much extra data should be saved on the
hard drive, and 10 GiB would be good for a installation with few
clients/users.
(Numbers are generated using make minimum-diskreq in the
debian-edu-install source directory.)
> Do you think that there are (m)any people with hard drives smaller
> than 20/30 GB?
I have no idea. But I have personal enjoyd the small requirement when
doing test installs in a virtual machine, so I belive we should not
inflate the requirement needlessly.
> AFAIK one magic bound of disk sizes were the disk with 8GB capacity,
> which would be sorted out with this requirement. (Not the technical
> boundary but the real one from produced hard disks).
Right. I suspect as you do that these are rare to come by these days,
and thus suggest 10 GiB as our recommended minimum for all profiles.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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