* Dennis Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> 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.

You can do text installations with less than 768MB.  The gui install is
what requires the 768MB (which we're hoping to change with the Dwarf
Caiman new gui installer project).

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn Lagasse
Solaris Install
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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