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Solaris 10 installation - out of memory?

807559Feb 22 2009 — edited Feb 24 2009
Greetings all,

About a month or so back, I came into an Ultra 10. The machine was given to me without a hard drive, so I threw in an old Maxtor 40GB that I had sitting around. Managed to get Linux working on it (mostly) well, and now I decided it's time to try Solaris. So, I've got all the ISO's downloaded, and here's what happens when I throw in disc 1:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137137-09 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Configuring devices.
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Attempting to configure interface hme0...
Skipped interface hme0
NOTE: Not enough memory for graphical installation.  Graphical installation
      requires 768 MB of memory.  Found 256 MB of memory.
      Reverting to text-based installation.
Using local console

bzcat: couldn't allocate enough memory
        Input file = /cdrom/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/X_small.cpio.bz2, output file
= (stdout)
Reading ZFS config: done.
Beginning system identification...
Searching for configuration file(s)...
Search complete.
/sbin/install-setup: fork failed - too many processes
Discovering additional network configuration...
/usr/sbin/sysidnet: fork failed - too many processes
/sbin/install-setup: fork failed - too many processes
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
(See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
Console login service(s) cannot run
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
(See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
Could not fork to start sulogin: Resource temporarily unavailable
Directly executing sulogin.
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Let me also say aside from this that the machine is VERY slow to do anything when it comes to booting off this CD -- e.g., the little bit that I hand-copied probably takes about 20 minutes to get to that point. However, in my messing around, I did manage to run format and get my swap partition and root partition, and when I turned the swap on with swap -a /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0, the speed problem seems to alleviate itself...telling me that it's running out of memory.

Suggestions as to where I should go from here?

Thanks,
Matt
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