On Dec 11, 2007 1:57 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
Knoppix should work it is a Live "CD" http://www.knoppix.net/ > > > 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 > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
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