Hi Dan, On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:57:00AM -0800, Dan Levine wrote: > I'd like to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 (or maybe 2008.11 RC2) on an Acer > Aspire 3680 with 512 MB of RAM, but booting into Gnome takes up too much RAM > - booting to the GUI takes more than fifteen minutes. Can I do a text > install? What command do I use to do so? > > (Sorry, complete Solaris newbie here.) > > Also - is it possible to install to a UFS filesystem instead of ZFS? ZFS > seems to be the major RAM hog on my machine, and booting from ZFS filesystems > seems very slow.
I'd give 2008.11 RC2 a try. I installed it on my 512 MB RAM Acer Aspire 3000 and it works fine. On the first boot after install, give it a little time, because it's doing the initial SMF import, but works fine after that. Great to see that the SFE driver is included these days!
