On 24/03/07, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
>> One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described
>> only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an
>> OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with
>> 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not
>> having enough memory - wanted 796MB or some such.
>>
>
> I always install Solaris in text mode, for which 256MB is enough, so I never
hit the RAM limits above.
> It's faster to install in text mode anyway.
>
True.
Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases
the "coolness" factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement
in 256MB RAM.
I think a good graphical installer should be possible in even less
than that, but I admit I don't know the technical reasons why we have
the requirements we have today to begin with.
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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