On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Dev Mazumdar wrote: >> On 8/25/07, Dev Mazumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have a laptop with 512MB RAM and even Windows >> Vista happily installs on this however Solaris won't >> saying that it needs 768M to install Developer >> Express. I even tried installling Solaris Express and >> it hangs trying to load up Java. >>> >>> Is there any way to get Solaris on this machine? >>> >> have you tried the text based install? >> >> nacho >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] > > Yes I've tried text based install. I verified that 512MB ram is not > sufficient for B70. > > This memory requirement is absolutely unacceptable.
Oh C'mon. 512Mb is not enough to run Windoze XP reasonably - even if you can actually install it. With 1Gb memory DIMMs around $50 (or less), expecting to run a state-of-the-art OS in 512Mb is "absolutely unacceptable". If you're serious about (Open)Solaris, then you're serious about your hardware. PS: Take a quick look at these two cost effective systems, each with 4Gb of RAM built by Bob Palowoda at: http://www.fiver.net/misc/solarisamdbox.html Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
