Hi Pallavi,

Please include the following release note for 2008.11.

Thanks,

-- 
Glenn

Installing OpenSolaris on low memory systems

OpenSolaris supports installation via its Live CD on systems or virtual
machines that contain at least 512 MB of physical ram.  The following
caveats apply.

While basic desktop functions and installation work, attempting to use
the Live CD as a full-blown user environment is likely to be
problematic.  An installed system should behave normally with 512 MB of
ram.

The Live CD supports booting the OpenSolaris kernel in either 32-bit or
64-bit mode depending on the capabilities of the underlying hardware, it
will only boot 64-bit if the system has 1000 MB or more of ram.  Systems
with less than this amount will boot in 32-bit mode.  This limitation
does not apply to the installed system.

It is not possible to launch the 'Read the Release Notes' link from
within the GUI Installer on systems with 512 MB of ram.  Doing so will
cause the system to 'freeze' while it's attempting to load Firefox.
Therefore it is recommended to read the release notes prior to launching
the GUI Installer.

On systems with less than 700 MB of ram the installer will create a
dedicated swap slice instead of a ZFS volume to use for system swap.

For more information on the differences between the Live CD and the
installed system that were made for the 2008.11 release to support
installation on low memory systems please see defect 3597 Unable to
install OpenSolaris with 512 MB base memory
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3597.


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