Glen Wiley wrote:
> Device detect is a nifty application, but it stops just short of
> being useful for the sort of thing that the porter wants to do.  It
> can be tricky to resolve missing dependencies (like a JVM) while
> standing in an isle at Best Buy messing with a prospective laptop :)
> 
> It wouldn't be very hard to roll your own CD that runs device detect,
> but I think that the point of the post is that this would overcome a
> hurdle that might help improve adoption of Solaris by the less
> experienced folks.  Providing a bootable ISO for download as part of
> the device detect "suite" would be a really nice hand out.

It's planned to be included in the general live CD that we'll be 
producing, see:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/

notably "driver detection and update"

Dave
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