Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
thomas rinehart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help I don't see any reason why schillix should have problems to run on 384 MB. The default boot selection needs 128 MB (and states to need 256MB). It may be that you have problems with your BIOS and the BIOS does not tell grub the complete memory size. You should read the documentation of your motherboard on how to add RAM. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
Joerg Schilling wrote: thomas rinehart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help I don't see any reason why schillix should have problems to run on 384 MB. The default boot selection needs 128 MB (and states to need 256MB). It may be that you have problems with your BIOS and the BIOS does not tell grub the complete memory size. You should read the documentation of your motherboard on how to add RAM. It's also possible that grub's module loading doesn't get along well with Memory hole at 15-16MB type BIOS options being enabled, but that's nothing more than suspicion. I've been trying to track down why a friend's machine fails to boot Nevada in a similar way, and that's currently my best (and only) guess. - Rich. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download Erast: Are you saying there is a known issue with Schillix, or just advocating a different distro? Thomas: Since no one has brought it up, I think once installed, the only OpenSolaris requirement is for 64MB of memory. Depending on what you install, you can do it with as little as ~200MB of disk space. Your system should be able to run an OpenSolaris distro just fine. I don't know why the Schillix installer complained. 384MB is more than enough-- but I've never tried to run Schillix on such a system. My guess is the issue was elsewhere? Perhaps it was really complaining about disk space?? Good luck, - Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:15 -0800, Matt Ingenthron wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download Erast: Are you saying there is a known issue with Schillix, or just advocating a different distro? I advocating different distro since I know that Nexenta InstallCD do not have this problem. And it should work with 256MB installed. So, by trying Nexenta he will get another data point to look at. LiveCD and alike has this problem since they require ramdisk preallocated for root partition. For instance, its a known fact for Nexenta Alpha1 LiveCD. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:22, Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download Bull, this is a cheap, shameless plug of your distro at the expense of a new user who's looking for answers. Thomas, The error just means that you're trying to use the graphical installer and you don't have the memory to run it. Try selecting the Cosole text installer. I just finished up a similar install and yours should work fine. No need to get another distro. John ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:53, John Weekley wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:22, Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download Bull, this is a cheap, shameless plug of your distro at the expense of a new user who's looking for answers. Thomas, The error just means that you're trying to use the graphical installer and you don't have the memory to run it. Try selecting the Cosole text installer. I just finished up a similar install and yours should work fine. No need to get another distro. John I stand corrected on some parts of my last email. Specifically, using the text installer option which may or may not exist in schilix as far as I know, since I use Solaris Express, so for that I apologize. John P.S. As far as advocating another distro, it doesn't solve the problem, but it does perpetuate the mentality that this distro should fix it which seems to be a very popular troubleshooting technique in another UNIX variant. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] i nstalling opersolaris
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:14, Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:03 -0600, John Weekley wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:53, John Weekley wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:22, Erast Benson wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, thomas rinehart wrote: i have a p3 750 with 384 mb a 20 gig hd with win98,ubuntu5.10 and debian sarge all installed and working fine however when i try to install opensolaris the schllix distro it tells me i dont have enough memory im new to solaris and could use some help try Nexenta OS's install CD at http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download Bull, this is a cheap, shameless plug of your distro at the expense of a new user who's looking for answers. Thomas, The error just means that you're trying to use the graphical installer and you don't have the memory to run it. Try selecting the Cosole text installer. I just finished up a similar install and yours should work fine. No need to get another distro. John I stand corrected on some parts of my last email. Specifically, using the text installer option which may or may not exist in schilix as far as I know, since I use Solaris Express, so for that I apologize. John P.S. As far as advocating another distro, it doesn't solve the problem, but it does perpetuate the mentality that this distro should fix it which seems to be a very popular troubleshooting technique in another UNIX variant. I think it is OK for now when all our distros (not including SE) are in premature alpha stage. On gnusol-users@ mailing lists I often ask users to try SE first to see if their problem gone. For instance, some driver availability/detection and memory related problem like this one very easy to check with another distro. If the user was experienced with Solaris, and comparing things, yes, I'd agree completely. I strongly disagree to use this as a troubleshooting method for newcomers though. They don't learn anything other than how to load another OS that may or may not fix the bug du jour. They could be learning far more, like how to report bugs to developers, and how to *fix* problems on their own. Granted, there may be some cases where switching distros is the only option, but I as you said earluer we're in an alpha state , I think it's too early for that sort of 'fix'. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
