[indiana-discuss] Memory size requirement of Indiana

[Aubrey.Li]

On Nov 8, 2007 10:12 AM, Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 07/11/2007, Aubrey Li <aubreylee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> One of my colleagues complains Indiana can't install on his 256M-memory box.
> >> He said the Indiana installer demands at least 512M memory, is that true?
> >> If so, can this issue be worked around?
> >>
> >
> > It's true for now; I believe there is work to reduce it in the future.
> >
> To be precise, there may be some work to reduce the size of microroot
> which will enable a live CD to boot on systems with less 512MB.  However
> there are no specific  plana on making it  install on 256 MB systems.
> However, that does not preclude someone from creating a new distro
> (using the distro constructor + some work:-) that would address this
> class of systems.
>
So we'll boot on systems with less 512MB memory by livdCD. But we can't install.
This doesn't make any sense!

Is there any reason why 256MB systems doesn't work? The whole CD is just ~700MB,
what eat up the available memory?

-Aubrey
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