> James C. McPherson wrote:
>> Jochen Gatternig wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Rather than downloading the iso images, I would prefer to install Solaris
>>> on my U10 from an install server. Is there somewhere a (public?) install
>>> server on the net?
>>
>> Not that I'm aware of, sorry.
>>
>
> No, there is not at present, though the new installer and packaging
> being built will support it eventually.
In theory there is no reason why a core install of Solaris can not be done
locally and then the rest can be fetched and pkg-get installed from a
catalog on any public server. In fact, it would take very little work to
setup such a thing as an experiment.
Essentially there is no difference between one SVR4 complaint package and
another. If we can pkg-get -i libpango and its dependencies :
http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libpango
Then there is no reason that we can not also pkg-get -i SUNWgnome-games or
any other SVR4 package format from within the Solaris Operating system.
In fact ... I think that the guys in the Sun Studio group asked me about
this a year ago and we somehow got busy with other things. It would be a
snap to install Studio 12 via pkg-get -i studio12 or similar.
I am thinking ... that it would be nice to setup such an experiment.
-
Dennis Clarke
