* Marcus (becker_marcus1 at web.de) wrote: > Hello, I am new to this platform and to Opensolaris. > > Is there some version of text based installer for Opensolaris? The > LiveCD with Gnome and everything is just too much for the machine. (P4 > 2.6GHz and 384mb memory). It took me 20min to be able to move the > cursor.
No, there is no text installer at this time. Furthermore, you *must* have a minimum of 512M of ram in order to Install from the liveCD (current development builds of 2008.11 require more, but that will be fixed for the FCS release of 2008.11). Providing a text based installation method is in the plans but as of yet hasn't been started. > I know the system can be started just to console prompt, but before I > start there to configure the slices and everything manually the > question if there is an installer like in BSD (sysinstall)? > > The packaging system seems to use a mirror like in Linux > (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/status) with auto update etc. > > The plan is to just put a basic system with a kernel and networking on > the machine, then install the rest via package system using ssh > console. Probably I just searched in the wrong places for information, > any hint is welcome :) If you're not going to use the graphical installer, then you're pretty much 'off the reservation' as far as getting things installed goes. I don't believe anyone has figured out what the absolute minimum required packages from IPS you would need are. If you wanted, you could use SXCE. It does have a text based installer and you could specify the SUNWCrnet metacluster which gives you a barebones install of Solaris with networking. But that's not OpenSolaris (so you won't have access to pkg(5) and the like). Cheers, -- Glenn
