I was shocked to see that my old old trusty HP Kayak XU tower was finally
at a point where it can not install Solaris. I have run Solaris 8 and 9
and 10 on it for years and years. It has two DVD burners and three SCSI
controllers, terribly simple graphics and no sound. It just works.[1]
I burned the snv_64a DVD and discovered that the 512MB of RAM was no
longer reasonable for the installer.
I'm shocked.
Am I to understand that the x86 miniroot on there will fill up all of my
RAM and still need more? Gee. Time for a new machine I guess but this
one won't die and it runs Solaris 10 just fine.
So then, whats the minimal system spec that Solaris 11 is shooting for?
I'll guess 1GB RAM, 18GB of disk, 100Mb/sec ethernet and a 1GHz proc.
Dennis
[1] the AMD PCNet ethernet driver in Solaris is terrible. So I use
Masa Murayama's device driver which is solid as a rock.
bash-3.2$ modinfo | grep pcnet
125 f9e2d000 b244 203 1 ae (pcnet driver v2.2.0)
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