Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Casper . Dik
True. Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases the coolness factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement in 256MB RAM. Of course it is possible. It can be done in a few KB. It's just that people have gotten to be brainwashed with all the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-29 Thread a b
True. Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases the coolness factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement in 256MB RAM. Of course it is possible. It can be done in a few KB. It's just that people have gotten to be brainwashed with all the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-29 Thread a b
Because responsible folks don't listen to Moinak Ghosh's Belenix minimize_Grub_bootImage - approach? (plus because the previous reliable/fast/memory-saving suninstall installer had to be replaced by whatever thing that somehow needed to be java based [for whatever marketing reasons], not to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-29 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Saturday 24 March 2007 03:30 am, a b wrote: Don't even get me started on Java. Better yet, don't get yourself started on it. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company!

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Shawn Walker wrote: On 24/03/07, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my

Why a GUI installer? - was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-24 Thread John Plocher
but I admit I don't know the technical reasons why we have the requirements we have today to begin with. Because responsible folks don't listen to Moinak Ghosh's Belenix minimize_Grub_bootImage - approach? The primary requirements are internationalization (only easy for western alphabets

[osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-23 Thread UNIX admin
One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not having enough memory - wanted 796MB or some such. I always install Solaris in text

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
UNIX admin wrote: One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not having enough memory - wanted 796MB or some such. I always

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 24/03/07, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not having enough