On 06/12/2020 23:11, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > I read in alpha3 release-notes about the activation of the graphical > installer for arm64. > > This needs to be documented in the installation-guide then. > > I have prepared a first patch for this, attached. > > There are two points remaining open: > - needed RAM: what is the minimal required RAM size for the use of > the graphical installer (minimum_memory_gtk in the patch) ?
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. > - status of the graphical installer: is this considered stable, or > do we want to call this "experimentell" for now? 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. > +</para><para condition="arm-gtk"> > + > +For this architecture the &d-i; supports two different user interfaces: a > +graphical one and a character-based one. The graphical interface is > +used by default unless you select an <quote>Install</quote> > +option in the boot menu. For more information about the > +graphical installer, please refer to <xref linkend="graphical"/>. 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.
