UNIX admin writes: > > We didn't regress with Dwarf Caiman. We are within > > the existing memory > > checks that the Solaris installer has had in them for > > some time. This is > > our current requirements: > > 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 > of RAM. Is anyone laughing at those 16 measly megabytes? I sure am > not. This is serious.
Time passes. I *expect* the requirements to change with time, including the minimum amount of memory. We used to install on 386 and 486 CPUs. We've long since dropped support for those platforms because they no longer matter. Is that a regression? I don't think it is, because the world we're in has also changed, and the loss of those museum-quality pieces doesn't matter. In terms of Dwarf Caiman, I agree that 786MB seems a touch excessive, even for today's machines. I assume it's a temporary regression and not a permanent design constraint. That, at least, is what the folks involved with the project have been saying -- repeatedly. Assuming it's just a temporary issue on the road to a much better installer, the right answer to this is "welcome to Nevada." We certainly do _NOT_ assert that Nevada will be entirely regression- free from build to build. It's not a release. > Again: did somebody, anybody at all, study how sgi solved this particular > issue? I strongly doubt it. > If the answer is simply "no", why not? Is any part of it open source with reasonable terms? If not, then all we've really got is an assertion that someone was able to fill those bags differently under a completely different set of constraints in a completely different era. That's believable but not terribly useful. Many of us were able to do great things in just a few KB of memory in decades past. Does that mean an Solaris Express should install on an 6809 with an array of 2114s for main RAM? I don't think so. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
