On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:34 PM, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> 2008/7/8 James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Indeed... even the most "bloated" linux distro at boot uses about 400mb >>> ram, while OpenSolaris' installer forces you to have 768mb, even if you >>> have shared and have 766mb mappable, it will fail. An installer does >>> not need 768mb, nor does an operating system, unless for some reason the >>> out of box configuration populates 20gb of mysql tables and starts it >>> upon next reboot. >>> >> >> >> Actually, it doesn't. It requires just under 512MiB currently. >> >> > SXDE 01/08 (B82) and SXCE B86/87 did, the GUI installer bombs out on > Thinkpad T30 due to it only showing 766MB to OS. If you mean Indiana, > then yeah. Both variants should require the same amount of ram, if > there's some bit set to run off lower end systems.
Actually the install technologies used in SX*E and Indiana are very different apart from the surface appearance of the Caiman installer. SX*E suffers from the bloat of a huge load of legacy stuff being put into the miniroot out of necessity. This makes the miniroot ungainly large and leads to the odd 768MB RAM requirement where in fact 500MB should suffice. In addition 768MB RAM requirement is there only if you use the "Solaris Express Developer Edition" boot option that lands one with the new installer. If you use the legacy installer by selecting the 2nd boot option then 512MB is enough. Regards, Moinak. > > James > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
