[indiana-discuss] how to install with only 256MB memory?

[Brian Gupta]

On Dec 11, 2007 1:57 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 11, 2007 6:42 AM, Tony Winslow <tonywinslow1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have only 256MB memory on my laptop. How can I install
> >> Indiana? Can I install it in the text mode?
> >> Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Text mode installation or installation on 256mb systems is not
> > supported at this time.
> >
> > In the future, this will likely be supported, but until then, you
> > unfortunately will not likely be able to install Indiana.
>
> I have an old laptop here that has 192MB of memory.  It really is a
> clunker
> but still quite functional. It has CDROM only so no way to boot KnoppiX or
> similar DVD based "live" OS images. I have a desk drawer full of DVD's and
> CD's that I had burned and one set was, of course, Solaris 10 GA which
> will
> install into a machine with 192MB of memory.  With a shoehorn.


Knoppix should work it is a Live "CD" http://www.knoppix.net/


>
>
> http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/IBM_390X_Thinkpad_800x600.jpg
>
> Installation took time, lots of it.  After first boot I applied every
> patch
> I could find and that means a few revs of the kernel at least.  So now it
> runs Solaris 10 fully patched and the next senseless task is to upgrade to
> snv_79. Regardless of all this patching it still had old-world style boot
> and not GRUB.
>
> It was all just an experiment running on a chair while I worked on other
> things and I never expected it to work really. But it did.
>
> The laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 390X Model Type is 2626.  It has a serial
> port
> but no network port. I installed a DLink PCMCIA 10/100MB DFE-690TXD
> ethernet
> card into it but that was not recognized at all.  This is why I wonder if
> an
> upgrade to recent Solaris Nevada will help or hinder.
>
> Dennis Clarke
>
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