[ug-bosug] Solaris Developer Express : Memory Requirements

[Sriram Narayanan]

On 1/22/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote:
> The "Solaris Express"  installation will go through with 512 MB. But the
> "Solaris *DEVELOPER* Express" thing needs atleast 784 MB. Thats because
> on top of the regular installer, they run the Sun Studio and Netbeans
> installers which are written in that Java thing. It ends up bloating the
> installer :-(
>
> You can better choose the "Solaris Express" option while booting and
> install it.
>

Are the Sun Studio compilers available on the DVD for separate installation ?
Else, we could (would have to) download and install the Sun Studio
Compilers separately.

Note to self: Check memory requirements (using VMWare) and then
distribute Belenix.

> Ananth
>
> USM Bish wrote:
> > I was quite  overjoyed on getting a  Solaris Developer Express
> > DVD after the BOSUG meeting yesterday. I got a full 40 GB disk
> > cleared. I  had little  doubts that my  box would  run Solaris
> > since Belenix  from CD  and GNU/Solaris  (Nexenta) (installed)
> > runs fine without hassels.
> >
> > But when I get to install  the REAL thing, it just refuses ...
> > it needs a minimum of 784 mb of memory ! My half gig memory is
> > just about  enough to  install the  Solaris Express,  but that
> > does not install the full development environment. The obvious
> > solution is to add some memory ...
> >
> > For those  who have  the Solaris Developer  Express installed,
> > what is it that makes Developer Express so memory hungry ?
> >
> > Bish
> >
> >
> >
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