On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:03 -0600, John Weekley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:53, John Weekley wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:22, Erast Benson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: > > > > i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and > > > > debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to > > > > install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough > > > > memory im new to solaris and could use some help > > > > > > try Nexenta OS's install CD at > > > http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download > > > > Bull, this is a cheap, shameless plug of your distro at the expense of a > > new user who's looking for answers. > > > > Thomas, > > The error just means that you're trying to use the graphical installer > > and you don't have the memory to run it. Try selecting the Cosole text > > installer. I just finished up a similar install and yours should work > > fine. No need to get another distro. > > > > John > > I stand corrected on some parts of my last email. Specifically, using > the text installer option which may or may not exist in schilix as far > as I know, since I use Solaris Express, so for that I apologize. > > John > > P.S. As far as advocating another distro, it doesn't solve the problem, > but it does perpetuate the mentality that "this distro should fix it" > which seems to be a very popular troubleshooting technique in another > UNIX variant.
I think it is OK for now when all our distros (not including SE) are in premature alpha stage. On gnusol-users@ mailing lists I often ask users to try SE first to see if their problem gone. For instance, some driver availability/detection and memory related problem like this one very easy to check with another distro. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
