Aubrey Li wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 12:32 PM, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: >> >>> Aubrey Li wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 8, 2007 10:12 AM, Sanjay Nadkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Shawn Walker wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 07/11/2007, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> One of my colleagues complains Indiana can't install on his 256M-memory >>>>>>> box. >>>>>>> He said the Indiana installer demands at least 512M memory, is that >>>>>>> true? >>>>>>> If so, can this issue be worked around? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> It's true for now; I believe there is work to reduce it in the future. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> To be precise, there may be some work to reduce the size of microroot >>>>> which will enable a live CD to boot on systems with less 512MB. However >>>>> there are no specific plana on making it install on 256 MB systems. >>>>> However, that does not preclude someone from creating a new distro >>>>> (using the distro constructor + some work:-) that would address this >>>>> class of systems. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> So we'll boot on systems with less 512MB memory by livdCD. But we can't >>>> install. >>>> This doesn't make any sense! >>>> >>>> Is there any reason why 256MB systems doesn't work? The whole CD is just >>>> ~700MB, >>>> what eat up the available memory? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I am not sure I see the connection between the size of the CD and memory >>> size. The data on the CD is in a compressed format. One boots a >>> mircoroot. A number of files such as headers, lint libraries etc and >>> never expanded. The disk space on the installed system is about 2GB. >>> On the installed system ZFS is the default file system. This puts >>> more memory pressure and the overall system behavior will not be very >>> good. One can probably get around this tuning the ZFS ARC, but that is >>> not the direction we are aiming for in Indiana. >>> >>> >> To add to that. The current microroot size is mainly because >> of the presence of unused amd64 binaries in the ramdisk. >> Ideally the 32 and 64 bit microroots should be separate. >> >> As Sanjay states there is no connection between CD size and >> memory usage. BeleniX has a DVD image that still uses only >> 60MB sized ramdisk. >> >> > I of course know there is no connection between CD size and memory usage. > I just wonder all of SXCE, BeleniX Nexenta are ok with 256M system, > why indiana does not. > When I said It has ~700M size, I mean it shouldn't include more new > package need to be loaded and occupy memory. >
It is because the miniroot is 146M in size which on a 256M RAM system does not leave enough memory to run GNOME. A smaller miniroot combined with an alternative lighter weight WM like Xfce will be needed. Regards, Moinak. > -Aubrey > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
