> Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * 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). >> > > Running the Netbeans and SUN Studio installers at first boot via a > transient > SMF service or via the JDS Postrun mechanism (with appropriate console > messages), instead of from the miniroot will bring down the miniroot size > requirements significantly in SXDE.
Hello Moinak : I am working my way through a few Sun blueprint docs and trying to put together a small bootable CDROM prototype that will allow me to pkg-get all of the rest of the regular SUNW packages as well as a pile of CSW packages. I figure this sort of thing may work well as a simple and portable installer tool. Booting the BeleniX LiveCD on the box is a great way to get a full blown OS but what I need to do is trim all the way back to just the basics. Thus far I seem to be doing a fine job of doing PXE netboots with multiple failures of varying degrees. Feels like progress :-) Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
