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

[Gil Young]

Man-oh-man!  The last time I ran any Sun OS in 8 meg of ram it was 4.1.3 
(actually did it with 4 meg once as well).  and it was barely tolerable 
with X-windows.  I did have Solaris 2.3 and 2.6 in 16 meg (already loaded, 
took out most of the ram after the fact), bad bad bad.

I did have a 32 meg Sparc 1+ handling a 1000 user company email (SMTP 
server for all incoming & outgoing), anonymous FTP server, news server, DNS 
server, web server, proxy server, NFS server for an email database 
(ccmail), and even ran some user logins and apps.  Eventually I got to 
upgrade it to a Sparc 2 with 64 meg (the SS2 cost about $90 at the time of 
upgrade), and then finally got budget for a pair of 250's to do it 
right.  Ah, the good old days.

Gil

At 01:26 PM 2/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >>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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Gil Young
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