Ananth Shrinivas wrote: > The "Solaris Express" installation will go through with 512 MB. But > the "Solaris *DEVELOPER* Express" thing needs atleast 784 MB. Thats > because on top of the regular installer, they run the Sun Studio and > Netbeans installers which are written in that Java thing. It ends up > bloating the installer :-( > > You can better choose the "Solaris Express" option while booting and > install it.
Well things do not actually need to use this much RAM if the split boot from CDROM as is done in BeleniX is implemented. But the present Solaris Express installer is not done in that way. Everything runs from the ramdisk, so it tends to be huge. This was presumably required to handle multiple CDROM install so that the installer has the ability to eject the CD. But then the installer puts a basic OS image when booted off CD0 and then reboots from harddisk and continues asking for the additional CDs. So I am not sure what is the problem here. Regards, Moinak. > > Ananth > > USM Bish wrote: >> I was quite overjoyed on getting a Solaris Developer Express >> DVD after the BOSUG meeting yesterday. I got a full 40 GB disk >> cleared. I had little doubts that my box would run Solaris >> since Belenix from CD and GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) (installed) >> runs fine without hassels. >> >> But when I get to install the REAL thing, it just refuses ... >> it needs a minimum of 784 mb of memory ! My half gig memory is >> just about enough to install the Solaris Express, but that >> does not install the full development environment. The obvious >> solution is to add some memory ... >> For those who have the Solaris Developer Express installed, >> what is it that makes Developer Express so memory hungry ? >> >> Bish >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
