Edd wrote:
>> andrew wrote:
>>> Is there an ETA for a bootable SPARC CD?
>>>
>> No.  We have no staff assigned to doing that right
>> now.
> 
> I think this would be an option to consider, as you are locking out people 
> (like myself) who want to try opensolaris, but can't because they don't have 
> a computer already running opensolaris to host the network install.
> 
> Thanks

This will require a text mode installer, as there are few supported
framebuffers for SPARC; in any case, there's not enough room on a
CD for a SPARC Live CD.

If you can find a few GB of space on a x86 machine, you can set
that up as your installer....

- Bart


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