A number of you may have noticed that there has been no CD media for Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) for quite some time. This includes both x86 and SPARC. A couple of weeks ago, support for > 1TB disks was added to Nevada (#6752824), causing the first CD to exceed the maximum size of the CD for x86. There are no fixes for this available at this present time.
Given SPARC and x86 CD downloads count towards a very, very small fraction of the download numbers each month, we have decided to postpone CD media for SXCE for the indefinite future. While I can appreciate this may alienate a small proportion of our user base, it is not in Sun's current best interests to continue this given the large overhead in creating the CD media. We will continue to provide CD media for OpenSolaris (the distribution available through www.opensolaris.com) with the intention to provide full SPARC support in OpenSolaris 2009.04 - a first phase being ready during the first part of 2009. For those wishing to download and install a CD install image for x86, I would recommend OpenSolaris 2008.11 which is due out later this month, or some of the other distribution listed on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/. Those who unfortunately are in the position of requiring CD install media for SPARC, I apologize but encourage you to closely monitor the efforts on indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org as SPARC support is developed. Glynn -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
