The Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) disk actually contains another, very similar distribution - namely Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) which adds the developer tools and switches on NWAM (NetWork Auto-Magic - see http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/). Basically:
SXDE = SXCE + Dev Tools + NWAM enabled by default As if that wasn't confusing enough, every SXCE DVD comes with SXDE as the default boot option -the GRUB menu on the install DVD lists: Solaris Express Developer Edition (<- GRUB default) Solaris Express (<- *THIS* is SXCE ) + 2 others for "headless" installs Confused? I certainly was when I saw this the first time! Also, as you've discovered, the SXDE installer itself only runs in graphical mode so if you have less than 768MB memory, then it cleverly switches to running the SXCE text-mode installer for you instead. You can add the developer tools to SXCE, by running the script: /media/SOL_11_X86/DeveloperTools/install_devtools.sh This assumes that the DVD is mounted in its default location, i.e. /media/SOL_11_SPARC , on your system. (The location is /media/SOL_11_X86 on x86 / x64). Sorry for the rather long-winded explanation - this info really should be somewhere obvious on the download page IMNSHO. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org
