Alok and William:
I had seen a lot of hang during AI install on 512 MB. Now I understand what is going on and I realized I ran into bug 7758. With this fix in place, I can finally install AI on 512 MB machines successfully. It will also help osol adoption on low memory system. Before the livdcd fix for 512 is available, AI is the only way to install on these low memory system. Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hi William, > > On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, William Schumann wrote: > >> There are two problems addressed by this bug. >> >> 1) After initial AI installation, the swap slice is regarded as user >> data in subsequent AI installations instead of scratch >> 2) The swap slice space allocation in TI is not done with any >> awareness of AI customization >> >> The fix involving making AI aware of 1 and for AI to perform 2 instead >> of leaving everything to TI, which allocates the swap space for GUI. > > So, from a high level, is it fair to say that the policy with respect to > preserving slices by default isn't being > changed? And, the change you're making here is to create > a swap slice if either s1 doesn't exist or s1 exists with > a V_SWAP tag. Correct? > > Also now that 7718 has been reversed in the source code > only machines with less than 700MB memory will see this > problem on every other AI install after the *first* install. > > Given this, the question in my mind is whether it is worth > making complicated changes like these this late in the > release for a relatively small set of machine. Or, to think > through the problem we're solving more carefully and defer > it to the next release. > > Do others have an opinion on this? > > Alok > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
