Hi Peter, * Peter Tribble (peter.tribble at gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Glenn Lagasse<Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com> > wrote: > > Hi Michael, > >> > >> It would be beneficial for the OpenSolaris community to be able to > >> choose between the basic OpenSolaris install (CD Version) and a full > >> system install (DVD Version). Is there any possibility of having this > >> provided with OpenSolaris 2010.02? > > > > What isn't solved for this problem with the 'repo-on-dvd' that was just > > released and doing pkg install redistributable? > > For one thing, that's about twice the download size. Not only does the > repo currently have both sparc and x86, it duplicates what's already on > the CD. It also turns what could be a simple one-step process into > multiple steps.
Ok, but it does work. It does solve the problem. Perhaps not optimally for all, but nothing comes for free :-) As I said, if this option doesn't scratch people's itch they are more than welcome to create one and not wait to see if Sun is going to implement such a thing. Using the liveCD as a start in Distribution Constructor, it shouldn't be too hard to expand the package list to include redistributable and what not. Then you've got a liveDVD on physical media that you can take around and install the whole wad. Last I heard, we had no plans to create such a thing but we were encouraging the community to create it if they wanted it. Cheers, -- Glenn
