James Dickens wrote:
On 2/23/07, *Alan Coopersmith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Due to some changes planned in the way install images are built
for Solaris Nevada, we've been having an internal discussion this
week about whether it would be okay to drop CD images for the
future Nevada builds (which the community sees as Solaris Express:
Community Edition) and only have DVD images.
We've got some statistics which show downloaders seem to prefer
DVD images over CD at about a 2:1 ratio - but we don't know if those
downloading CD images could use DVD images instead.
The internal discussion thus has been based mostly on our assumptions
about who the community members are and what hardware they have, but
no one has yet asked the community.
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?
I think for x86 its okay to discontinue cdroms ( a box with 256MB ram
most likely has a dvd drive or can spend $20 and get a dvd drive, but
for sparc it should be continued many sparc machines that run solaris 10
don't have dvd drives and scsi dvd drives are not cheap and are hard to
find used.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com <http://uadmin.blogspot.com>
You'd be amazed at what OpenSolaris runs on. I've got a B57 mail server
running happily on an ancient Gateway 433 Mhz celeron. Problem is the
BIOS is from 1998 and doesn't know what to do with DVD's. I have s
strong suspicion that people interested in trying OpenSolaris will be
happy to sacrifice an older box to play with it, but not one of their
newer ones. I'm fortunate to be able to perform netinstalls, but not
everyone is. Keep your options open.
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