Sorry for the noise here ;-). My previous mail went too soon. The Solaris Express option is mentioned in the release notes here.
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/netvirt/downloads/20080213/release_notes Virtual Box seems to be a good use case going forward, but given the timeline (Feb 14th) of the previous drop, we may not have spent much time on Virtual Box by then. Now the only open issue I have: What is the realistic RAM requirement if we are installing on a physical disk partition? 1GB seems too much. Regards, - Raju On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com> wrote: > This seems to be a nice candidate for our instructions/manual/release > notes. Do we have a page for this? How can we help improve the > documentation? > > Even though the final product may look very different, can we have an > evolving release notes page for each early access drop? > > Regards, > - Raju > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Sunay Tripathi <Sunay.Tripathi at sun.com> > wrote: > > > Perfect! I think I had mentioned to some people but I forgot to put it > > on the notes that you will need to use Solaris Interactive install and > > not the SXDE install option. Anyway, this is great. > > > > Thanks, > > Sunay > > > > Raju Alluri wrote: > > > Finally, this combination worked and I could run crossbow early access > > > Feb14th edition in VirtualBox. > > > > > > - Solaris Express Community Edition > > > - 1GB RAM for the machine > > > - Default install (Solaris Interactive) > > > > > > The install as well as first boot (including service definitions of > > SMF) > > > took a very long time. Subsequent reboots are reasonably okay. > > > > > > Yet to play with the actual installation. This is just an interim > > report. > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com > > > <mailto:spurthi at gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Kais Belgaied > > > <Kais.Belgaied at sun.com <mailto:Kais.Belgaied at sun.com>> wrote: > > > > > > Raju Alluri wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > b. Selecting Solaris Express during boot process goes > > a > > > little > > > > further > > > > > and hangs the installation. See > > > > > this picture: > > > > > http://spurthi.googlepages.com/cbowcap02a.png > > > > > > > > > > Are we missing something? Did anyone successfully run > > > this build on > > > > > VirtualBox? We allocated 8GB space > > > > > and 512 MB RAM, which should be good enough. > > > > > > > > I think the SDXE installer requires 768MB of memory. > > If > > > possible, try > > > > allocating 1 GB of memory to be on the safe side. > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried with 1GB of memory too. Doesn't make a difference. > > > > > > > > The image checksums are correct. We verified that one too. > > > > > > do you go further when you sdo b, then select '4' > > > (Solaris Interactive Text (Console Session)) ? > > > > > > > > > Actually, I have been trying these alternatives. > > > > > > My 6th attempt, with the following combination > > > - 1 GB RAM, > > > - Solaris Express, (Not developer express) > > > - Solaris Interactive Installation > > > seems to proceed further, but hogs my 2GB RAM desktop. 10% install > > > done so far. > > > Will keep you posted. Thanks Kais and John for taking time to > > respond... > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > Kais. > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > > > > -John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestion? TIA. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > - Raju > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Raju Alluri > > > http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Raju Alluri > > > http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > crossbow-discuss mailing list > > > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss > > > > > > -- > > Sunay Tripathi > > Distinguished Engineer > > Solaris Core Operating System > > Sun MicroSystems Inc. > > > > Solaris Networking: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking > > Project Crossbow: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Raju Alluri > http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ > -- -- Raju Alluri http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/attachments/20080307/8d3830c7/attachment.html>
