Package: debian-installer Version: 20150422 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch To follow shortly are some patches in the jessie-kfreebsd branch that should be applicable to sid also.
Reducing MFSROOT size very slightly allows the kfreebsd-amd64 installer to work again on systems with 144 MiB total memory. Whether using the GTK or non-GTK image, it will run in low-memory text mode. There seems to be enough free memory to run in GTK mode even on 256 MiB systems, so I've enabled that. This is highly desirable, since GTK mode enables many more locales than are available in text mode. 256 MiB is probably the smallest amount of memory that will be found in a real amd64 machine. Virtual machines will typically have much more than this, but a notable exception is qemu-system-x84_64 in wheezy, which defaults to 128 MiB; there is no way we can support that in jessie-kfreebsd. The most memory-hungry thing is ZFS. Giving only 128 MiB swap, a GTK install can be completed to ZFS with only 256 MiB total memory. partman does already prompt users to create swap *and* recommend 512 MiB memory to use ZFS. (Without any swap, install to ZFS will fail even in text mode and with 512 MiB memory, so using GTK mode has no detriment on ZFS installs). -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: kFreeBSD 9.0-2-amd64-xenhvm-ipsec Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150429230911.45776.60302.report...@sid.kfreebsd-amd64.pyro.eu.org
