Getting rid of CDs is not a good idea at least for a while. I deal with
users from around the world everyday and there are many who do not have
either DVD reading or writing capabilities. (Some don't have CD burning
hardware either, but that is getting to be rare.) Surely many of these
will not be moving to Opensolaris or even Solaris 10 on their hardware
and so maybe the OpenSolaris community should not care, but by not
offering CDs you are guaranteed to keep them from trying OpenSolaris or
contributing to the effort in any way.
Some of these people have only one Solaris system, so using another
system to install might not work. Live Upgrade could work though there
may be limits to that as well.
It is also my experience that there are organizations (oddly enough some
very large ones) and individuals in the US who would fit the "third
world" category.
Steve Christensen
Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
Hi Alan,
We've removed all of our v20z's so its not an issue for us...but if we
still had them it would be painful in extreme circumstances. The ILOM
and ELOM both support remote ISO mounting, and the basic BMC on the
v20z doesn't. So in an emergency you're stuck with CDs.
Best Regards,
Jason
On 2/23/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>
>> > Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you
have
>> > systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that
>> > you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a
mounted
>> > image?
>>
>> Speaking personally, no I have no issues with this.
>>
>> --
> That would probably be a show stopper in many third world countries,
> but then again, as long as the developer edition has cd images, there
> shouldn't be a problem.
Getting rid of them for Nevada will affect the Developer Edition as well.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club
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