On 22/10/2007, Milan Jurik <Milan.Jurik at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > V po, 22. 10. 2007 v 21:44, Dennis Clarke p??e: > > > Hi: > > > > > > Even for SXCE, installing on 256 MB is not successful. It will only > > > work with 384 MB. > > > > > > This is tracked under the following bugid: > > > > > > 6548184 - install hangs on 32-bit x86 with 256MB RAM in snv_61/s10u4 > > > > I don't understand why that is a bug at all. I don't think there is a > > scrap of documentation anywhere that says that the user should expect > > Solaris/SNV/BeleniX/ON-foo to run or install with less than 512MB of RAM. > > I am of the firm opinion that a user should have 1GB RAM minimum to use > > Solaris at all. If someone ( like me ) decides to crush Solaris into some > > microscopic little appliance thing with 64MB of RAM then that is just an > > experiment ... nothing more. Certainly not supported. > > > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0157/6nbtrlcbj?l=en > > > I think that the docs on this are clear and this bugid 6548184 falls into > > the area of "not supported and never was". > > >
I doubt anyone is getting that information from there, and I'm fairly certain the READMEs, etc. contradict it. I also think it's problematic that the documentation doesn't specify *which* release of Solaris Express it applies to. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
