> I'm not so much interested in "trying out" things. I have my own > systems for that. I'm building a (free) system for someone else > that I can support. As for others (parts of our target audience), > they need versions of OS that they can load on small-memory > systems. If Belenix (as an example) can install on a > small-memory system, why can't the main OS tree go the same > route?
Using Belenix, doesn't land into the category of "trying out". It has already been tried out and it works fine. It is a live CD (iso image you can download from belenix.org) and you can boot it in less than 8 minutes. Only constraint is, it needs minimum 256MB memory. After the CD boots, you can use it just like any operating system. Now you can use this to install on the harddisk. If you just want to install a complete OS onto your friends system, this will do. -Narendra On 9/7/06, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > > Yes, it's all about the boot architecture. SPARC > > will be doing > > something similar in the not-too-distant future. > > So, the plans are to make the SPARC version need more memory as well? > Sorry, but this seems a step backwards to me. > > > It's possible we can reduce it, but it requires some actual engineering, > > and for us it hasn't been high enough priority. > > Well, perhaps the OS community can help with this. If I was a programmer, > I'd be seriously inclined to help. :-/ > > > One thing that will run > > on less memory right now, at least theoretically since I don't have any > > convenient boxes with less than 1 GB to try it on, is the Live DVD > > prototype we have been working on which is over on the Live Media > > project[1]. We're going to try to put some sort of minimal installer on > > it soon; > > That sound like a positive move. > > > meantime you can try out the Belenix version which is similar > > and already does have an install. It ain't Solaris, but it is > > OpenSolaris, and I think it's a dandy way to try out a lot of things. > > I'm not so much interested in "trying out" things. I have my own systems > for that. I'm building a (free) system for someone else that I can support. > As for others (parts of our target audience), they need versions of OS that > they can load on small-memory systems. If Belenix (as an example) can > install on a small-memory system, why can't the main OS tree go the same > route? > > Rainer > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, ??????? ??????.???.??? (S.S.Narendra Kumar) Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20060907/4fbb9921/attachment.html>
