Hi, Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/12/2020 23:23, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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). > > Probably. (I don't really know much about measuring RAM requirements.) > > >> 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? > > Sounds OK to me. Things should hopefully get better as more people test > on their devices and report in. :)
It turned out, that this "preview" proposal brings in some formulating issues, so I went back to the "experimentell" variant. > >> 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... ?) > > I think that's more related to the use-cases of the devices. AFAICT, > most people are used to connecting to arm* devices over serial/ssh, but > that's slowly changing as more arm64 laptops (or maybe even desktops?) > get less niche. Now pushed to git. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
