On 09/14/09 09:01 AM, Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Frank, > > There is no plan to make liveCD for SPARC. We are planning on few things > that will help with this:
This is great news! I don't suppose you have any idea when one of these might become available? I'd take any of them... > 1. Recovery disk. This will be for both SPARC and x86. One disk that can boot either architecture? That would be pretty amazing and a wonderful thing! But two disks would be OK too... > 2. Automated install is being modified to allow a client to boot from > the network without initiating an install. This may be heavyweight for a > single system recovery, but would work. Yes, it would. My least favorite alternative, but having it available would make things a bit less scary. > 3. Text installer. This introduce a media based bootable SPARC image, > and allow you to boot and not do an install since it is interactive. > > There is no bootable image for SPARC at this time. The text installer > and the bootable AI image are both in the works now. It makes sense not to do a SPARC live CD. Anyone wanting to run Open Solaris on SPARC can always find a way :-). IMO not having some way to do a rescue is a bit of a problem unless you have more than one machine, likely true for most if not all SPARC users. I'll keep a bootable disk on a shelf until one of these solutions becomes available... > thanks, > sarah > ***** Thank you! Good news is always welcome :-) Cheers -- Frank -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
