>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? >
Solaris 11 still run in 256MB just fine, it's just the installer which wants to copy X and Java to ramdisk which is costing so much. Use "vanilla install" without graphics and it should be fine. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
