> 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.
You can do a text-based install of Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE), but not OpenSolaris. You can get SXCE from here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ The text mode installer for SXCE also allows you to select whether you want to install to UFS or ZFS. The downside of SXCE is that it is a bigger download, and it doesn't include the new packaging system. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
