On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jonatan <jonatan.gold@gmail.com> wrote:
Chris!
Thanks for information.
I don't know exactly what did you mean with firmware image, but I suppose you thought that on pre-installed ubuntu there should be apache, perl and mysql (plus zebra...)?
I see below that you are using a server package based on an ARM processor. I thought maybe you were doing your own hardware design and would therefore be cross-compiling your OS for some sort of stand alone application.
Also if you know the answer. How much space does Koha requires? And how much space takes database for example for 3000 books and 100 users?
Our catalog has between 8 and 9K items and runs about 200MB.
I'm asking because I intent to buy those small servers like SheevaPlug or GuruPlug and they have 512MB flash memory (and 512MB RAM). Probably half of it uses OS so there's left cca. 256MB for Koha and its database. Will this be enough for Koha? If not then we can still expand to USB.
512MB ram might be a little lean. 256MB flash will almost assuredly not be enough. The Koha installed from tarball is ~220MB. Then you will have the additional packages for the dependencies along with the space required for your db. You will probably have to mount up an additional file system somewhere.
We have small library and we want to become more "advanced and to take advantage of computer science" :) . Also we work for free so we need something small and cheap.
Maybe you should consider a good used pc unless you have other constraints which require an ARM based device. Kind Regards, Chris