[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SAPRC system these days?

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 23 09:16:10 CDT 2001


On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:05:37AM -0400, Zach Malone wrote:
> I just installed Solaris 7 on an LX with 16mb of RAM at my workplace.  I
> must violently disagree with you, any install which takes over 2 hours to
> complete, is a little long IMHO (I gave up after logging in as root, and
> waiting, and waiting, and waiting...), maybe if you tried installing Solaris
> on an LX which had some RAM, or you didn't try using X, it would be
> preferable.  Nonetheless, I am not trying that again soon.

I think Solaris 2.6 and above require 32meg of ram for the install.  It
might *work* with 16, but 32 is recommended.  

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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