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! (Note: I've used Linux for several years now, but I have little knowledge of OpenSolaris insofar as it differs from Linux. Please don't judge me! :) ) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
