[indiana-discuss] can be Opensolaris installed with 512 MB of RAM?

[Adrian Portelli]

Kees Nuyt wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:22:51 +0100, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
> 
>> Dear users and developers,
>>
>>    I would like to ask You, if Opensolaris can be used on A computer with 
>> 512 MB of RAM. And if yes, which services or processes could i kill to free
>> The maximum amount of memory while install it with Orca? Because Opensolaris
>> installation program displaied varning message, that atleast 1 GB of RAM is
>> required. I could continue, but I do not want to risk random crashes
>> because of too fev memory and also The head in my burner is moving very
>> often and loading time of data is long, so i do not want to overheat this
>> head.
>>
>> So is it possible to use Opensolaris with 512 MB of RAM?
>

I installed OpenSolairs (snv_101b) on a system with 512Mb RAM over the
weekend, although it took a loooooong time it got there eventually.  I
then found a system with more RAM and used that instead :)  So
unfortunately while I can say the install went OK I can't comment on
usability.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200811/x86/

"OpenSolaris supports installation through its Live CD on systems or
virtual machines that contain at least 512 MB of RAM. The following
limitations . . ."

adrian.