<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv1705232974"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15884"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15883" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15897"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15888"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15898">Hello,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15899"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16351" dir="ltr">The 'default' minimal hardware requires =>768MB RAM. The achieved hardware minimum recently with the latest illumos kernel is 48MB RAM (i.e. in CLI mode). This was recently achieved by Peter Tribble.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16352" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16353" dir="ltr">Older recent Live CD distros like Milax required at least 128MB RAM for CLI mode and 256MB RAM for desktop mode.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16354" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16606" dir="ltr">Changes were made for installer purposes, ZFS/LiveCD overhead, etc. You can minimize a lot of this.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16627" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16355" dir="ltr">Sidenote: Just 10-12 years ago, very high-end 3D gaming systems used 2MB RAM and high-end computers used 512KB-2MB RAM.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16585" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16648" dir="ltr">illumos development may give more accurate numbers.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16649" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16650" dir="ltr">Hope that helps,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_16651" dir="ltr">Ken<br></div></div><div><span></span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463407929265_15882" class="yiv1705232974qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1705232974yqt0011529767" id="yiv1705232974yqt63920"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv1705232974yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, May 16, 2016 5:45 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp@rsu.ru> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv1705232974y_msg_container">On 05/16/2016 06:58, Michael Kruger wrote:<div class="yiv1705232974yqt7795606269" id="yiv1705232974yqtfd48849"><br clear="none">> Hello All,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Reporting my progress so nobody gets the idea this little technology<br clear="none">> demonstration project has been abandoned. Far from it, there has been<br clear="none">> continued development.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> See it all here: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://makruger.github.io/website/">http://makruger.github.io/website/</a></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some notes:<br clear="none">http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/faq.html:<br clear="none">1) Sun/Oracle’s proprietary OS/NET consolidation has been replaced with <br clear="none">illumos-gate. => Sun OS/NET consolidation, closed by Oracle, has been <br clear="none">replaced... I mean, OS/NET was open.... until Oracle came;<br clear="none">2) What are the recommended hardware specifications... I'm not sure <br clear="none">about 4GB... It can be true for desktop/decent server, but you shurely <br clear="none">can run OI with 2GB RAM or even less. I've just checked, my OI VM with <br clear="none">GUI has 2 GB RAM... Perhaps, we can distinguish minimal and recommended <br clear="none">requirements?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/handbook.html">http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/handbook.html</a><br clear="none">Besides synchronizing to Handbook on the wiki, other notes:<br clear="none">1) Booting physical hardware - seems irrelevant, better to provide links <br clear="none">to illumos HCL and OI community HCL.<br clear="none">2) 2.1.2. Booting Virtual Hardware<br clear="none">No special tricks are required for Virtualbox, just mention to select os <br clear="none">type Solaris 11 64-bit.<br clear="none">3) 2.2. The OpenIndiana Boot Menu<br clear="none"> You should eventually be presented with a desktop. - irrelevant to <br clear="none">Text Install images.<br clear="none">4) Perhaps, need to mention that UEFI boot is still not supported.<br clear="none">5) 4.2 When you boot from the text installer, it immediately begins the <br clear="none">installation process using the previously described Text based Guided <br clear="none">Install.<br clear="none">Not entirely true, it also can spawn shell and be used as recovery image.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Other general note. If we have to use some documentation tools to write <br clear="none">OI documentation, they should be available in OI repository. Perhaps <br clear="none">it's not true for IDEs, but basic tools should be there.<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Best regards,<br clear="none">Alexander Pyhalov,<br clear="none">system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">openindiana-discuss mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org">openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss">http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>