On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Dave Miner<dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote: >> Michael Sichler wrote: >>> >>> Dave, >>> > [...]> >>>> So far we expect that most such customers will deploy using >>>> automated installation from network repositories, not CD/DVD.< >>> >>> Not saying I disagree, but what do you base this on? ?Some would find >>> it easier to just pop in a DVD, select the packages and build a >>> system. >>> >>> Again, thanks for your reply. >> >> I'm sure that some would, but experience has been that media-based >> installation are not widely used by "corporations and government agencies" >> as you were defining the potential users. ?Most of their deployments are >> done using automation frameworks that pull packages or images from network >> servers, so features that support those scenarios are where we're spending >> the bulk of the effort that's targeted at those customers. > > ? In addition a LiveDVD does not automatically imply ability of > package selection. > ? A live image is the image of an installed system and is transferred > to hdd as is. > ? So a live DVD image will be a much bigger install probably to the > tune of a 10GB > ? OS image. One can of course "remove" packages after the transfer > but that is a > ? waste. One cannot selectively transfer packages from a live image. > ? It is also possible to put the liveCD image on the DVD and also bundle in an > ? offline repository but then again, you may choose not to install all > packages > ? therein. Then what is the point of downloading stuff you may not > need. Download > ? only additional stuff that you need directly from the package repo, > when you need > ? it. That brings us back to the liveCD approach. > > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
Moinak: It is well possible, as I explained 2 months ago. Just put exactly the LiveCD stuff onto a DVD medium. But change the install method aways from copying over a huge monolithic "live" image to a pkg based installation. Then different install cluster can be offered once again, like in the old times. No big deal, conceptually. I think Sun's engineers could implement a test release in a few days. A single person might need 2 weeks. Regards, Martin Bochnig
