* Matt (sonicthehylian at gmail.com) wrote: > Hey there, > > My computer-illiterate mother has an 8-year-old PC. It got a virus > some time ago, and since she doesn't have a Windows restore disc, I'm > installing OpenSolaris. (I tried Linux before, but oddly enough, > OpenSolaris gets a better signal out of her PCI wi-fi card.) > > However, when I installed OpenSolaris (2009.06) on that PC, it ran > incredibly slowly. I think this was because the machine has only 512 > MB of RAM, and ZFS uses a lot of it. So I was wondering how I could > create and install OpenSolaris on a partition that's formatted as > something--anything--other than ZFS. The graphical installer is a > little [i]too[/i] user-friendly in my case, as it won't let me create > a non-ZFS partition. > > I've searched the forums and the Web for answers, and I can't find > anything very helpful. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
That would be because you can't install OpenSolaris on anything other than ZFS. OpenSolaris is designed to exploit features of ZFS (snapshots/clones/etc) particularly in the package installation and upgrade experience. Running on a system with only 512M of ram, while possible it isn't going to be an optimal experience. But it will run just fine. Cheers, -- Glenn
