Hi Sarah, It's good to know that reducing the RAM requirement is high on your list of priorities.
Thanks, Darren. Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Darren, > > >> All looks promising... >> >> One comment that I have is w.r.t. the amount of RAM needed on the client for >> an install - is it really necessary for 1GB? >> >> > For now 1GB is necessary. But, we don't plan to require this amount for > the released product. The way the prototype is implemented is that we > use http to download the additional, non microroot files, to the client. > These additional files, currently in the form of compressed lofi > archives, contain the binaries, etc, that are necessary to bring up the > /usr, /opt, and other filesystems and so we can invoke the AI program. > > The choice of http was deliberate. I wanted to use a protocol that could > also be used for WAN installations. The idea is that we keep the > architecture of the net image the same across different use cases, LAN, > WAN, flash. Using http instead of some other file sharing protocol like > NFS or CIFS, means more RAM is required. > > However, one of our top priorities is to define the net image > architecture such that we don't require that much RAM. I did trim the > pkg list for these images considerably from the current liveCD image, > but a lot of work still needs to be done to reduce the sizes further. >> This would seem to be quite a lot given that an interactive install require >> 768Mb - and it was always said that the reason for this high amount was the >> use of a UI during the install. Does the AI install use a UI? >> >> > It is a lot, I agree. One difference between OpenSolaris and the SXCE > installer is that we use IPS for the package installations to build our > images. And, we only remove things from the microroot and the compressed > lofi archives at the pkg level, not the file level as we do in SXCE. We > build the images much differently for OpenSolaris. Also, the 2nd > prototype image contains a local IPS repository and we install the > additional packages from this. This requires a bit of RAM as well, > although I haven't done much to determine how much of the memory > requirement is this processing. > > But, again, one of our highest priorities is to reduce the RAM > requirement and to find a better way to dynamically build the microroot > and the other archives required to boot and install the clients. > > Regards, > sarah > **** >> Thanks, >> >> Darren. >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >>
