[indiana-discuss] Indiana and memory

[Aubrey Li]

nexenta has small memory requirements - 256MB, which is also zfs-based.
http://www.nexenta.org

-Aubrey

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote:
> Martti Hamunen wrote:
>  > How much must have memory to install Indiana.
>  > I have 512MB and it stops after 5%.
>  >
>  >
>  Indiana's target (what the developers hope to support) is exactly 512MB.
>
>  However there are many motherboards with integrated video that, while
>  you may have 512MB installed, steal some of it for the video controller,
>  and leave somethign less than 512MB for the OS.
>
>  I had this problem on a Dell I was installing to. The BIOS gave me the
>  option of 'stealing' either 8MB, or 1MB, but that didn't seem to make
>  much difference ( I think once the OS boots the video driver can
>  dynamically change what it 'stolen' regardless of that setting.)
>
>  What I finally did, was to pick 'text console' at the GRUB menu, and
>  then I ssh'd in from another machine. I set and exported $DISPLAY to
>  point back to my desktop on the other machine and then i ran the
>  installer. 'gui-installer' is what it's called I think.
>
>  By not starting X on the machine while booted from the CD, not only did
>  the instlal complete, but it ran noticably faster (still not quick though.)
>
>   -Kyle
>
>
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