[ug-bosug] Solaris Developer Express : Memory Requirements

[USM Bish]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:05:04AM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
> >
> > You can  better choose the "Solaris  Express" option while
> > booting and install it.
>
>   Well things do  not actually need to use this  much RAM if
> the  split  boot  from  CDROM  as  is  done  in  BeleniX  is
> implemented. But  the present  Solaris Express  installer is
> not done in  that way. Everything runs from  the ramdisk, so
> it tends to be huge.  This was presumably required to handle
> multiple CDROM install so that the installer has the ability
> to eject  the CD.  But then  the installer  puts a  basic OS
> image when booted off CD0 and then reboots from harddisk and
> continues asking  for the additional  CDs. So I am  not sure
> what is the problem here.
> 
> Regards,
> Moinak.
> 

Moinak, the exact description is as follows.

I cleared  up a  40 gig  hard disk,  ajusted jumpers  and then
swapped  cables to  make  it primary  master.  I inserted  the
Solaris Developer  Express DVD.  It worked. The  kernel booted
normally, and except for  DHCP networking everything was fine.
Then a screen  came up with four options, the  first two being
the "Developer" and second the regular "Express" (I forget the
other two options). On choosing  "Developer" it did some recce
of  my box  and exited  with  the message  that the  Developer
Express needed a minimum of 784  mb of RAM, and suggested that
I install  the regular  "Express" version.  For a  trial, this
is  precisely  what it  did,  and  thereafter except  for  the
networking (which is to do with  my router settings) I got the
regular GUI install, and everything installed fine.

There must be ways to  add on the missing development packages
on to  the existing install, but  I need to find  out how. The
DVD is  HUGE, and a fair  amount of RTFM is  necessary. I will
wait till this weekend to find out things. In any case, I plan
to  get  a  1 Gig  stick  for  my  box  and reinstall  in  the
"Developer" mode tfter that to see the difference.

Bish