> Therefore I hereby propose an optional OS2009.06 LiveDVD which works > analogous to the matching CD, which can be created in exactly the same > way via DC, everything matching, but which includes all stuff from > /dev on disk and installs everything. Right now via cpio and all at > once as a single global overall-cluster. >
You, or anyone, are welcome to create additional derivations of OpenSolaris such as the one you're proposing; that's the beauty of it being a redistributable base (just remember to follow the trademark rules when you post it to genunix or whereever). A couple of us have in fact tried it, and found that there is a bug in lofi (6778233, unfortunately not exported on b.o.o) that prevents > 4 GB compressed lofi archives from working correctly, so you can't do it with the official 2009.06 bits (I'm planning on getting Juergen's proposed fix in soon). In terms of what Sun will support in the product, it's not likely we'll create lots of variant media for official distribution. Adding a repo DVD is planned, but that's the only one on the horizon right now. Personally, I don't get the enthusiasm that's been expressed for supporting this particular installation mode. I tend to believe that it's due to habit of long-time Solaris users who haven't had network package repo's; it was less inconvenient to have a pile of extra, mostly useless bits lying around and adding overhead to upgrades than to have to hunt up a DVD in the event that some of those bits were needed later on. I'd never want to do this with any Linux distro, either (and didn't, when I was using them a lot). Dave
