[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Tue Jul 8 10:18:16 PDT 2008


2008/7/8 James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com>:
> Indeed... even the most "bloated" linux distro at boot uses about 400mb
> ram, while OpenSolaris' installer forces you to have 768mb, even if you
> have shared and have 766mb mappable, it will fail.  An installer does
> not need 768mb, nor does an operating system, unless for some reason the
> out of box configuration populates 20gb of mysql tables and starts it
> upon next reboot.


Actually, it doesn't. It requires just under 512MiB currently.

-- 
Shawn Walker



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