>I wasn't saying that Caiman regressed. I'm saying that installer and >therefore Solaris as a whole regressed in terms of memory requirements. One used to be able to install Solaris 2.5.1 on 16MB o f RAM. Is anyone laughing at those 16 measly megabytes? I sure am not. This is serious.
Solaris 2.5.1, in 16MB? I *am* surprised; I know it kinda worked in 48MB (laptop I had at the time). >Again: did somebody, anybody at all, study how sgi solved this particular >issue? > >sgi did not need 256MB of RAM to install IRIX, an OS which was on the order of >several gigabytes i n his default incarnation and used miniroot more than 15 years ago. It follows logically from this, that 15 years ago most sgi systems only had 24-32MB of RAM, so sgi must have done something right. SunOS 3.x had a graphical installer which worked in 4MB, so perhaps that is not an argument :-) I think there's a fundamental flaw in he current installers; the installer needs to copy the 100s of megabytes of data it by and large does not use into memory before it starts working. (In fairness, the SunOS 3.x copied to disk) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
