> * 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).
No problem. I figured that the good ol' serial console based text installer will always work and so that's not an issue. Also, I feel that dragging around seven year old hardware in the x86 world is gettting really silly. Perfectly reasonable with Sparc but entirely "silly" with x86. So what I need is a change of thinking as well as RAM. What I'll do now is pull out the x86 miniroot and get that onto my tftp/dhcp/nfs server to allow network based PXE boot and install. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
