Michael Sichler wrote: > Glenn, > > Thanks for haven taking the time to discuss this. I truly understand > that resources are limited at Sun; they are in my world as well. I > guess I was unaware of the difficulty of creating the OpenSolaris > install DVD since the SXCE DVD is available. My thought was it > wouldn't be difficult, it just wasn't available. >
It is extremely easy to build a live DVD image with the full "redistributable" package set using the Distribution Constructor. I've attached a manifest that does exactly that. However, the resulting image won't install until it's based on at least build 121 (coming soon) due to a bug in the lofi driver that was just fixed. Building an image that allows package selection and installation with reasonable performance, on the other hand, is really not feasible at present, as the other respondents have indicated. > I hate to compare (because I like Solaris), but if you install for > example RedHat EL or Fedora, you get to choose which packages you > want to install, you don't have to perform a base install then > connect to the internet to obtain all the other packages. > Actually, if you use the live CD for Fedora, the experience is similar ot OpenSolaris. Same for Ubuntu, whether desktop or server. The install DVD used by Fedora and RHEL are as you describe. > I do believe in the long run it would be to Sun's benefit to produce > such an animal because corporations and government agencies who will > pay for the support subscriptions would benefit from it. > Thanks for the input. So far we expect that most such customers will deploy using automated installation from network repositories, not CD/DVD. Thus we've spent more emphasis there and provided the Distribution Constructor for those like you to build more custom images. We'll be working on getting more information out on how to use Automated Installation and Distribution Constructor for these types of scenarios. Dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fatos.xml Type: text/xml Size: 15927 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090818/38d63217/attachment.xml>
