[indiana-discuss] Determining Target System Requirements

[Aubrey.Li]

On Nov 12, 2007 9:06 AM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/2007, Aubrey Li <aubreylee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 10, 2007 2:26 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > Indiana should install and run the system with the configuration as follows:
> >
> > 1) 256M memory + GUI + X86 + Live CD-based + CD + suitable performance
> > 2) 256M memory + GUI + AMD64 + Live CD-based + CD + suitable performance
> >
> > Justification:
> > That's what we need for a distribution to be doable for our project.
>
> That needs further explanation. What "project" are you referring to?
>
> I should also note that almost every distribution I've found that has
> a native AMD64 environment consistently requires at least 384MiB of
> memory for a LiveCD. This is in part because of the code size being
> significantly larger for that architecture.
>
> As a result, I'm trying to figure out why and how you picked out
> 256MiB as a number.

We are trying to see if solaris works on the classmate PC. See below
the configuration:
http://www.classmatepc.com/classmatepc-system-hardware.html

256M amd64 system may be a hard requirement, but 256M x86 system is
realistic IMO.

>
> I should also note that every LiveCD environment I've encountered
> (GNOME-based ones anyway) consistently require between 256-384MiB of
> memory.
>
> Ubuntu, notably, requires 384MiB.
>
> Suitable performance is outside the scope of this particular
> discussion unless you are using it drive the memory requirements, in
> which case, 256MiB is probably erring too low; especially considering
> Indiana is zfs-based.
>
hmm..., I didn't realize the footprint of zfs-based system is bigger
than ufs-based.
If it's not really doable, please ignore my requirement.

Thanks,
-Aubrey
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