[Koha] ARM

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jonatan <jonatan.gold at 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