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...)? 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? 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. 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. Thanks for your time. Regards, Jonatan Na 4.10.2010 13:23, Chris Nighswonger je pisal:

Hi Jonatan,

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Hello!

I didn't find any information on the internet about that subject so I'm asking you:

Does Koha run on Debian or Ubuntu for ARM arhitecture? I see no reason why it should not. Just be sure that you have all of

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Jonatan<jonatan.gold@gmail.com> wrote: the dependencies loaded in your firmware image.

Kind Regards, Chris

Op dinsdag 05 oktober 2010 03:33:50 schreef Chris Nighswonger:

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.

And the zebra index, which will be the same order of magnitude size as the DB. It'll be a tight squeeze to fit it in 512MB, but I think for the number of items you have, it would be _just_ doable. You'd still need other machines for things like backups though. You'd also want to keep a close eye on free space, I had one of my dev servers run out the other day, and mysql just died a horrible death and I had to restore it from backups. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204

Anyway, this SheevaPlug have an USB port and port for SDHC cards, so space can be expanded (external hard drive can be used, but I not intent to). Possibly it could be configured such way that you could use 2, 4, 8 etc... GB SDHC card for OS and KOHA plus 1GB USB for swap for better performance. Or instead swap it could be used for backups. This small server uses cca. 5W. So for our small and "not everyday open" library is this perfect. I am in condition of gathering of information, but as far I am now, I think I will do it. So after doing this successfully I will let you know and enrich koha-community website with this information. But don't expect it soon. I will need time.... Regards, Jonatan Na 5.10.2010 13:14, Waylon Robertson je pisal:

Doing this sucuessfully, would be a feat of awe. Please please please, let us know if you actually get this working. Oh, and prehaps perl could be trimmed down to bare minimum modules.... but you'd have to figure out what they are.

----- Original Message ---- From: Robin Sheat<robin@catalyst.net.nz> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tue, 5 October, 2010 7:57:28 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] ARM

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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. And the zebra index, which will be the same order of magnitude size as the DB. It'll be a tight squeeze to fit it in 512MB, but I think for the number of items you have, it would be _just_ doable. You'd still need other machines for

Op dinsdag 05 oktober 2010 03:33:50 schreef Chris Nighswonger: things like backups though.

You'd also want to keep a close eye on free space, I had one of my dev servers run out the other day, and mysql just died a horrible death and I had to restore it from backups.