Hi, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Yes, we had reports in the past, where it failed in a later installation step (I think it was partitioning). So I guess, we could go with something like 640MB as the minimum setting (including some reserve). > > > - 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. Hmm, that smells like some potential for problems :-) Maybe we could call it a "preview", if "experimentell" is a bit harsh? > > +</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. Ok, that's important info. I will change the paragraph accordingly. (BTW: this fact could second the "preview"/"experimentell" state from above, in the eyes of the users... ?) Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
