Dennis: How much swap space do you allocate on the system in order for Install with 256 MB to work ? I heard that some one was able to make this work if swap space is at least 2 GB.
The last time I tried this in snv_70b on 256 MB Dell system, the ttinstall does not work. My swap space is only 512 MB which is the default. Dennis Clarke 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
