Resending my response to Ankur to the edu-discuss alias. (Ankur had initially posted his question to this alias).
cheers sanjay Sanjay Pandit wrote: > Hi Ankur, > > First off, thank you for your interest in OpenSolaris. > > As of now, we do not have an exclusive installable OpenSolaris. You > would need to download the Solaris Express and a couple of platform > specific packages to install and use OpenSolaris (see > http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ and > http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/releasenotes-20051007.txt ). > What we could do is to provide you with 'Belenix' > (http://belenix.sarovar.org/belenix_home.html), which is a livecd > based on the OpenSolaris Distro. This will enable people to get the > flavor of OpenSolaris. In addition, we can provide you with Solaris 10 > DVD's which can be provided to students who are interested in > installing Solaris on their machines. > > Another option is that we can provide CD's of the Installable Solaris > Express and the platform specific OpenSolaris code which can then be > installed on the users machines. ( I need to explore this option a bit > more before we can finalize on it). > > You have mentioned an instalfest in your mail. Have the dates been > finalized as yet ? If so, would appreciate if you can provide this > information to us so that we can plan for it. Also, as you are based > in Bangalore, would it be possible for you to come over to our office > so that we can discuss this in greater detail. > > Please include my email address in your response as I am not a part of > the edu-discuss alias. > > thanks > sanjay > > >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: ankur <versesane at yahoo.com> >>> Date: 15 October 2005 9:16:37 AM EDT (CA) >>> To: edu-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> Subject: [edu-discuss] OpenSolaris InstallFest @ College >>> >>> >>> Hi my name's Ankur ... I am the president of the computer club of >>> our college ( The Oxford College of Engineering - Bangalore ) ... >>> we have this FreeOS Installfest lined up ... Besides FreeBSD , >>> Debian , we are thinking of OpenSolaris too ( instead of Solaris 10 >>> ) ... i took a look @ the presentation that you gave to Vlad Grama >>> here ... >>> was wondering if there could be any Installation video ... and BTW >>> can we install opensolaris in VMWARE ( Thats the only way i can >>> think of making a video myself ) ... we intend to give away these >>> videos on CD to students along with dvd's of the OS ... >>> >>> Thanx in Advance >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> edu-discuss mailing list >>> edu-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >> >> >> >
