When one chooses [i]Solaris Developer Express, Edition[/i] from the GRUB menu, 
only GUI install is available.  For graphical install more memory is needed 
because of a  couple of things that were putback into bld55.

1.  JRE 1.6  bulked by 60-80MB (I cannot recall the exact number) but it's 
about 200MB.  This directly sucks up space on the ramdisk.

2. The decision  into launch text or graphical mode by the installer depends on 
available memory.   The tool reporting  this was buggy and often was 
incorrectly optimistic ;-).  That was fixed.  To give you an idea of how wrong 
this was, prior to the fix, on a specific configuration it was reporting 96 MB 
of free memory.  After the fix it reported 20MB!!!   

Thus for GUI install 512MB is not sufficient.

-Sanjay
 
 
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