[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Getting Started Guides posted

[Moinak Ghosh]

Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>   
>>> Indiana gang,
>>>
>>> I've posted alpha drafts for review and input  for the following two
>>> documents:
>>>
>>> 1) "Getting Started: Slim Install"
>>>
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/project_documents/slim_install_getstarted/
>>>
>>> 2) "Getting Started: Project Indiana"
>>>
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/indiana-documents/indiana_getstarted/
>>>
>>> I'm preparing these documents for the Indiana October prototype.
>>>
>>> The Slim Install guide is much further along than the main Indiana
>>> guide, but
>>> it's a start!  In particular, you'll notice some TBD sections that I'll
>>> be working on.
>>> Feedback and input is welcome!
>>>     
>>>       
>> Well, this is a darn good start in the right direction. Seeing that I love
>> documentation that reaches the end user.
>>
>> little spelling errors ...
>>
>> on page : Slim Install System Requirements
>> Note - If your system has insufficient memory, the program exists and
>> displays an error message.
>>
>>    probably wanted "exits" there
>>
>> Also, I know you may be towing the party line here but do you really believe
>> that 512 MB minimum thing?  I sure don't anymore.  It would probably be safe
>> say2ing 1GB minimum and then you at least know that ZFS will be functional
>> as well as JDS/GNOME and things like that.  These days 1GB of RAM is
>> nothing.
>>   
>>     
>
> I am not trying to finesse things here, but to boot the liveCD,  512MB 
> should be sufficient. Instead of using a miniroot, we now have a 
> microroot which is about 20MB.  The rest is kept compressed. This allows 
> us to boot to a fully functions desktop (similar to Belenix) with a 
> smaller memory foot print.  If the user chooses to install the system,  
> since  ZFS root is the default, 512MB will be tight.  I have not played 
> too much with 512MB and ZFS root.  So any input on this configuration 
> would be helpful.

   I have been testing the Transfer module on a Dell Latitude D600 with
   512MB RAM since that was the only spare machine I had. Did not face
   any problems in running stuff in JDS while booted off the LiveCD. The
   entire copying process takes about 20mins.

   However the cpio's do thrash the page cache quite a bit. This is mostly
   due to lofi not freeing pages where it should. The recent updates to
   compressed lofi by Alok should fix this.

Regards,
Moinak.