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------- Comment From ROESCH3 at de.ibm.com 2017-06-22 06:41 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #13)
> Btw. yes, 2GB is fine for smaller Ubuntu systems I even have some 1GB
> systems over here, but mainly in VM and KVM - so we indeed have such small
> systems for some tests or for just trying out certain aspects and functions
> as well.
>
> A good common sense is to just select in d-i the min. required stuff for the
> initial setup and install anything else on top of that after the initial
> setup got completed.
> It provides also a better user experience due to the more convenient package
> mgnt tools.
>
> It is not really possible to estimate the required RAM if installing all of
> the archive options, because the services are started upon installation. And
> they may even have different requirements that change from version to
> version.
>
> The disk space estimation can also only be done quite roughly and is based
> on the package unpacked size. But keep in mind that postinst package scripts
> may create more files that again consume more disk space.
> For example postgresql create and starting new clusters,
> or backups and snapshots are taken
> which at the end can eat a lot of space in /var.

OK thank you for clarifying this. May I suggest to write something along those lines " A good common sense is to just select in d-i the min..." in the documentation somewhere? So that customers run into that.
Of course what I was trying to do (it was part of a test) may also be an edge case and is not relevant. But IMHO it wouldn't hurt to have one or two sentences about this topic in the documentation.

------- Comment From ROESCH3 at de.ibm.com 2017-06-22 06:43 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #14)
> OK thank you for clarifying this. May I suggest to write something along
> those lines " A good common sense is to just select in d-i the min..." in
> the documentation somewhere? So that customers run into that.

I meant to write "DON'T run into that"

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Title:
  Installation with many package groups selected is not possible

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Invalid
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Installer version: 20101020ubuntu451.10
  Kernel: 4.4.0-62-generic

  Description/Reproduction:
  Tried an installation with every package selected except the following:

  Mythbuntu master backend
  Mythbuntu slave backend
  Mythbuntu frontend
  Xubuntu minimal installation
  Xubuntu desktop
  Audio recording and editing suite
  Video creation and editing suite

  The installer fails finishing the step "Select and install software".
  I get prompted e.g. for the MySQL root password or the postfix
  configuration, but the step does not come to an end.

  debug logs are attached

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