Hi Jerry, I remember seeing this before, I appreciate the link!
I normally pick up software from a trusted source. Prebuilt svr4 packages with source from Steven Christensen at his http://sunfreeware.com/ site. I will investigate. I have added your information regarding olvwm to the X tab on my blog. Other information was also consolidated. I am consolidating various sources and will post results to the network management blog on 12/05 about zfs on embedded devices. It looks like it can get down to a few megabytes on the ARM port. I remember there being other blogs about small Solaris, so much is hard to find when Sun blogs migrated to Oracle and some old references were killed off. Many thanks, David http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello David, > > Are you aware that there is a complete olvwm/Openwin package for Solaris > 10 on freshmeat.net, assuming that is the direction you need to go? > > Or, given your embedded system platform, is TWM an option for you? > > ........................ > > Also, in reference to your ZFS comment below, and quoting the same 2009 > thread, there was discussion of something called CZFS that is part of > the ARM Solaris port. > > This is a verbatim quote from Darren Moffat from that discussion - > > "Again see the ARM project there is an alternate build of ZFS called > CZFS which is specifically for limited memory configurations. " > > Hope this is of some value to you, > > Jerry > > > On 11/22/11 08:35 PM, David Halko wrote: >> Of course I meant 128M - typo due to phone or flashback to >> compiling assembly on my 2nd multi-user timeshare system? ;-) >> (I am more proficient in Assembly than C - ha ha!) >> >> I also saw old sun blogs talking about shrinking OpenSolaris, >> but I have not seen a recent distribution with a small footprint. >> >> 256MB is too big for my embedded systems, unfortunately. >> >> Solaris 10 ran in 128MB with gnome. I need a distribution with: >> - RS-232 serial support (recent sunray firmware drops RS-232 support?) >> - X server (don't need gnome, olvwm would be awesome) >> - USB WiFi, USB Ethernet, USB Serial support would help >> - WiFi would be great, but not a requirement on embedded platforms >> - ZFS would be awesome, but only a dream for embedded platforms >> >> Thanks - Dave >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In late 2009 on the OpenSolaris appliance-discuss list, there were a >>> group of people who where running Solaris on the Soekris net5501 platform. >>> >>> http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html >>> >>> Here are a couple of helpful links that were in that thread (redirected >>> from the original sun.com blog links). >>> >>> http://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/framework_to_help_create_small >>> >>> http://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/opensolaris_on_the_smallest_system >>> >>> To quote one poster from this 2009 thread, "The headless version uses up >>> about 60MB RAM when executing, leaving lots of room for customization." >>> >>> Jerry Kemp > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175845-b97465aa > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
