On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:14, Erast Benson wrote: > 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. > If the user was experienced with Solaris, and comparing things, yes, I'd agree completely. I strongly disagree to use this as a troubleshooting method for newcomers though. They don't learn anything other than how to load another OS that may or may not fix the bug du jour. They could be learning far more, like how to report bugs to developers, and how to *fix* problems on their own. Granted, there may be some cases where switching distros is the only option, but I as you said earluer we're in an alpha state , I think it's too early for that sort of 'fix'.
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