On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:10:54AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > > > Is it hopeless to try an install with 16mb on ppc ? (I could _test_ it, > > > I don't have to do it ;) > > What machine is that ? We could always try for a specially targeted > > initrd for this kind of machines, one more should be no problem, and > > since most of our package add support for almost all powerpc hardware, > > there may be lot of space to gain. If you provide more info on the > > hardware, i would be willing to give this a test. Is this acceptable to > > you ? > > Yes, I'm willing to test anything on ppc I can test. But right now I've only > got an two old 4400/200s and an ibook. If got three 16mb ram modules for the > 4400s so first I'll test 32mb and then I'll test 16mb. (Right now one has > 48mb and the other zero.)
Cool. It will probably not work out of the box though. > Right now I'm testing doing an install on a 120GB harddiscs on one big > partition. To my surprise yesterday quik managed to install on that disc on a > 7gb / (root) partition, so I somehow expect quik to boot from a 120GB / > (root) partition as well. As soon as I know, I'll post the results here. > > As my next step I will checkout the d-i sources and have a look a > yaboot-installer to see if I can use it as a starting point for a > quik-installer. But don't expect that to happen before friday... Cool. If any special partitioning is needed, maybe we could also make a partman-quik or something such .udeb. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
