[SunRescue] Solaris 8 (on a 386/16 crate.....well almost!)

Mike Hebel rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Feb 22 13:26:33 CST 2001


>>On a lark, I could not resist the temptation, so I drags out the oldest,
>>rustiest, dustiest, I386/16 crate I could find, with 8M ram.....and
>>tries the Sol8 load.....

Show off - I don't even have a 386 built any more. ;-P

>>gues what, it at least booted and loaded the
>>kernel, but then it ran out of ram and panic city....

Not surprising - AFAIK Solaris has never been known for being a "light" OS.
Has _anybody_ run anything 2.6 or later in 8meg?  I didn't think Solaris
would run in that small a footprint.

>>But, I will try the 486/33 with 64M ram tonight....(:+}}...

I can't help but think that this will still be _very_ slow but YMMV.

Mike Hebel  (Searching for his 386 board to see if he can built something.)




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