> > > > > For what it's worth, I hacked away at the nevada build 22 miniroot > >and was able to install a 128Mb system. Here are the details: > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on > > > > One question: when you look a the way the installer works on Solaris/x86, > you see that it pulls archives in and uncompresses them. > > Is there any compelling reason not to symlink them to areas on the > DVD/install image? > > (Ah, for the DVD/CD you want to be able to unmount it later without > having to reboot; but for netinstall it seems somewhat wasteful to > pull it over the network and store it in memory)
Correct, the ability to eject media drove that decision. As to why netinstalls do it the same way, it's mostly to keep as much code common as possible. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that we only pull down the big archive if we have enough memory and we're not on a serial console. That said, _my_ test machines have far more memory than network bandwidth and going away from nfs based root's for netinstalls actually improved install times. -jan _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
