Hi Matt, On 09/01/09 08:38, Matt 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. You can restrict the amount of RAM ZFS uses for its functioning as explained here : http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Limiting_the_ARC_Cache
> 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! :) ) > I don't think you can have a root filesystem other than ZFS in OpenSolaris. Regards, Krishnan
