I've been long interested in reducing Solaris's footprint. This wasn't
possible with the monolithic "Solaris" distribution, just as it isn't
possible to install RHEL4 onto a mobile phone. But Nexenta and Belenix
both have a smaller footprint than Sun's server focused distribution and
of you want to reduce further, look at:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15397
An "appliance" community exists:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=98 which shares the
goal of creating a slim solaris.
The only reason Solaris has stayed off two of my cast-away machines and
another machine donated to a local convent is that the installer takes
too much memory.
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Stewart, David C wrote:
I can ask around and see if there is an opportunity here for Solaris
as well. Believe the classmate PC has been going on long before the
Sun-Intel alliance.
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.
Is this just a packaging issue? Can Solaris run on "small"
machines? Are there implementations which run on really tiny things
like cell phones and the like?
It can run on machines with less than 796Mb. Try selecting a text
base install and don't pick the developer option - you can manually
install the NetBeans and Studio stuff after the install.
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