On 11/7/07, J. Todd Slack <slackmoehrle at gmail.com> 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. >
Cool. A couple of pointers. The Distribution constructor probably has automated a lot of stuff for you(including the liveCD stuff). You can leverage that work. The blastwave guys (Dennis Clarke mainly) are working on the Chinkara/Gazelle project, which aim to provide a minimal base for installation and other apps over the network. you might want to look into these projects. Google will give you the links. ~Anil
