* Dan Levine (dlev89 at gmail.com) 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?
There is no text install mode for OpenSolaris 2008.x. It's planned but we haven't started working on it. That said, we support installing on systems that have 512M of *dedicated* RAM. That is to say, if you've only got 512M of physical ram and you're sharing some of that with an integrated (ie onboard) graphics chip, then you don't have enough RAM to install. Based on some quick google searching, it appears that this model laptop does indeed share system RAM with the video chipset. So, you're pretty much out of luck there unfortunately. We don't have any plans to change this requirement. > (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. Not in OpenSolaris 2008.x. The gui installer only allows installations to ZFS since a lot of other technologies in OpenSolaris are utilizing ZFS features (such as snapshots on update, rollbacks, etc). Cheers, -- Glenn
