J. Todd Slack wrote: > Hello Open Solaris Folks, > > I have *some* experience with Linux From Scratch. I have toyed with it > off and on at times. > > I would like to take some of my ideas for an ideal operating system and > apply them using Open Solaris as the base. I dont know a lot about the > inner workings of Solaris. Essentially creating my own distribution. I > would like to offer a Live CD and then be able to use the Live CD to do > the actual install onto a hard drive is the user desires it. > > I have a nice Windows machine with lots of RAM and 1.5 Terabytes of > storage, VMWare Workstation 6 to get started with. I can invest in other > systems for testing as I need to. > > I would be blogging my work for others to benefit from and wanted to > create a site like: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ for the benefit of > others as well. > > What exists to help already? Does anyone have any thoughts? Ideas? What > would be cool in a distro? > > I would love to chat extensively about this, write up a game plan and > make it available for review also. > > I have the time, desire and drive to do this. >
The Distribution Constructor portion of Caiman is probably the place for you to start, since it's the tool that we've started to build for the purpose you're talking about. The OpenSolaris Developer Preview was built using it, as will future versions. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Constructor/ Dave
