Marcus wrote: > Hello, I am new to this platform and to Opensolaris. > > Is there some version of text based installer for Opensolaris? The > LiveCD with Gnome and everything is just too much for the machine. > (P4 2.6GHz and 384mb memory). It took me 20min to be able to move the > cursor. > > I know the system can be started just to console prompt, but before I > start there to configure the slices and everything manually the > question if there is an installer like in BSD (sysinstall)? >
No, there is no text installer at this time. > The packaging system seems to use a mirror like in Linux > (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/status) with auto update etc. > > The plan is to just put a basic system with a kernel and networking > on the machine, then install the rest via package system using ssh > console. Probably I just searched in the wrong places for > information, any hint is welcome :) Your best workaround right now is to boot text mode, login, enable ssh, then ssh -X in and "pfexec /usr/bin/gui-install" to display the installation GUI remotely. Dave
