Hi Al, Al Hopper pÃÅ¡e v so 25. 08. 2007 v 16:43 -0500: > 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
If you would say 256 MB, then no objections. But 512MB is enough, WinXP are OS from time when 512MB was "a lot". > you can actually install it. With 1Gb memory DIMMs around $50 (or > less), expecting to run a state-of-the-art OS in 512Mb is "absolutely 50$? Too much. > 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 > There are tons of desktops and laptops with 512MB of memory. And tons of small servers which have even less. All are usable. Even under OpenSolaris. If they survive Solaris Express installer. Best regards, Milan
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