> On Dec 11, 2007 6:42 AM, Tony Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have only 256MB memory on my laptop. How can I install >> Indiana? Can I install it in the text mode? >> Thank you in advance! > > Text mode installation or installation on 256mb systems is not > supported at this time. > > In the future, this will likely be supported, but until then, you > unfortunately will not likely be able to install Indiana.
I have an old laptop here that has 192MB of memory. It really is a clunker but still quite functional. It has CDROM only so no way to boot KnoppiX or similar DVD based "live" OS images. I have a desk drawer full of DVD's and CD's that I had burned and one set was, of course, Solaris 10 GA which will install into a machine with 192MB of memory. With a shoehorn. http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/IBM_390X_Thinkpad_800x600.jpg Installation took time, lots of it. After first boot I applied every patch I could find and that means a few revs of the kernel at least. So now it runs Solaris 10 fully patched and the next senseless task is to upgrade to snv_79. Regardless of all this patching it still had old-world style boot and not GRUB. It was all just an experiment running on a chair while I worked on other things and I never expected it to work really. But it did. The laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 390X Model Type is 2626. It has a serial port but no network port. I installed a DLink PCMCIA 10/100MB DFE-690TXD ethernet card into it but that was not recognized at all. This is why I wonder if an upgrade to recent Solaris Nevada will help or hinder. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
