Well I saw this subforum on Astahost and thought that I would give Solaris a try after all I have Linux installed. I went onto the Sun Microsystems site and downloaded OpenSolaris but I cannot get it to install.
I burned the ISO image onto a CD-R and proceeded to boot into it. At the GRUB bootloader, I chose the first option (the non-text one) and it started booting.
After about half an hour, the GUI came up and it looks A LOT like Ubuntu Linux. The computer was very unresponsive at this time and it took 5 minutes to click on the System menu. Then I tried to find the install button but it froze before I could open up the administration menu. A GNOME error popped up and the system froze.
My question is, does OpenSolaris demand high memory requirements or other system requirements that my computer does not meet? I have Ubuntu and Windows XP installed and I am prepared to make a new partition if necessary.
I also tried booting into the text version but that did not work either. Should I use the Live CD at all or is there another way to install it?
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 04:47 AM
Yes I have exactly 512 MB of RAM. Where do I find the list of system requirements? I've looked on several documentations and wikis but I couldn't find it.Do you have at least 512 MB RAM? Check the minimum requirements before installing the operating system.
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:37 PM
Did you try the "do not use graphics" option ? Maybe you have an old graphic adapter, or a big part of your 512 megs is shared for you graphic adapter, so not available for Unix.
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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:08 AM
Yes, I tried using the standard version as well as the text-based console. Both didn't work. By the way, I have 1 MB of shared video memory on the computer I'm using now.
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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:13 AM
what graphics adapter do you have?
Maybe it's just missing that 1MB it requires? I have no clue, never installed Solaris before. Most likely it needs that much RAM is because it was designed to be a server OS never as a workstation really.
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Maybe it's just missing that 1MB it requires? I have no clue, never installed Solaris before. Most likely it needs that much RAM is because it was designed to be a server OS never as a workstation really.
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 02:45 AM
On my newer system, I have 4 GB RAM and plenty of hard disk space. The liveCD still doesn't boot up. I get to the GRUB boot menu and then it freezes there after I select an option. Solaris sounds interesting, but I can't even get the OS to boot!
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:38 AM
Same here, installed Solaris on my laptop and my other pc, both where extremely unresponsive and unstable. I've tried several of their distributions (they've send me 2 DVDs with some distro's on it) and none of them worked descently 
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:49 PM
You shouldn't install Solaris on laptops because they don't really have a laptop optimized core nor services making the battery not last as long.
You should install OpenSolaris on your desktop since it's a full fledge Solaris distribution.
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You should install OpenSolaris on your desktop since it's a full fledge Solaris distribution.
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