Shawn Walker wrote:
On 24/03/07, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
>> One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described
>> only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an
>> OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with
>> 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not
>> having enough memory - wanted 796MB or some such.
>>
>
> I always install Solaris in text mode, for which 256MB is enough,
so I never hit the RAM limits above.
> It's faster to install in text mode anyway.
>
True.
Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases
the "coolness" factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement
in 256MB RAM.
I think a good graphical installer should be possible in even less
than that, but I admit I don't know the technical reasons why we have
the requirements we have today to begin with.
Because responsible folks don't listen to Moinak Ghosh's Belenix
minimize_Grub_bootImage - approach?
(plus because the previous reliable/fast/memory-saving "suninstall"
installer had to be replaced by whatever thing that somehow needed to be
java based [for whatever marketing reasons], not to speak of replacing
good old Admintool with the "grand" smc, which takes a night to load [if
it finds its toolbox at all, on that day]
p.s. I'm myself semi-fluent in JAVA (having implemented a few trivial
mathematical algorithms in JAVA, at university [non-graphical cmd line
applications plus a number of simple applets]), so nothing against JAVA
itself. Make the SCJP and JD exams soon.
But has the installer to be JAVA based ???
Why, in technical aspects?
--
Martin Bochnig
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
