[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

[ken mays]

Hello,
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.

Older recent Live CD distros like Milax required at least 128MB RAM for CLI mode and 256MB RAM for desktop mode.
Changes were made for installer purposes, ZFS/LiveCD overhead, etc. You can minimize a lot of this.

Sidenote: Just 10-12 years ago, very high-end 3D gaming systems used 2MB RAM and high-end computers used 512KB-2MB RAM.
illumos development may give more accurate numbers.
Hope that helps,Ken
 

    On Monday, May 16, 2016 5:45 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
 

 On 05/16/2016 06:58, Michael Kruger wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Reporting my progress so nobody gets the idea this little technology
> demonstration project has been abandoned. Far from it, there has been
> continued development.
>
> See it all here: http://makruger.github.io/website/

Some notes:
http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/faq.html:
1) Sun/Oracle’s proprietary OS/NET consolidation has been replaced with 
illumos-gate. => Sun OS/NET consolidation, closed by Oracle, has been 
replaced...  I mean, OS/NET was open.... until Oracle came;
2) What are the recommended hardware specifications... I'm not sure 
about 4GB... It can be true for desktop/decent server, but you shurely 
can run OI with 2GB RAM or even less. I've just checked, my OI VM with 
GUI has 2 GB RAM... Perhaps, we can distinguish minimal and recommended 
requirements?

http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/handbook.html
Besides synchronizing to Handbook on the wiki, other notes:
1) Booting physical hardware - seems irrelevant, better to provide links 
to illumos HCL and OI community HCL.
2) 2.1.2. Booting Virtual Hardware
No special tricks are required for Virtualbox, just mention to select os 
type Solaris 11 64-bit.
3) 2.2. The OpenIndiana Boot Menu
  You should eventually be presented with a desktop. - irrelevant to 
Text Install images.
4) Perhaps, need to mention that UEFI boot is still not supported.
5) 4.2  When you boot from the text installer, it immediately begins the 
installation process using the previously described Text based Guided 
Install.
Not entirely true, it also can spawn shell and be used as recovery image.

Other general note. If we have to use some documentation tools to write 
OI documentation, they should be available in OI repository. Perhaps 
it's not true for IDEs, but basic tools should be there.
-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department

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