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

[Dennis Clarke]

> 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.

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