On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Glenn Lagasse<Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, >> >> It would be beneficial for the OpenSolaris community to be able to >> choose between the basic OpenSolaris install (CD Version) and a full >> system install (DVD Version). Is there any possibility of having this >> provided with OpenSolaris 2010.02? > > What isn't solved for this problem with the 'repo-on-dvd' that was just > released and doing pkg install redistributable?
For one thing, that's about twice the download size. Not only does the repo currently have both sparc and x86, it duplicates what's already on the CD. It also turns what could be a simple one-step process into multiple steps. It's also download only at the moment. While restricting the download live image to a CD is good (and increases the size of the audience who can burn it to media), that constraint doesn't really apply to physical media, where using a DVD would be far more user firendly. Having a single DVD that you just pop into a box and select the "I want KDE" or whatever option and letting it do it's own thing for a while. (And you really want software selection rather than just dumping the whole DVD on a user whether they want it or not.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
