Dave Miner wrote: > As Ethan noted, the problem James had is a direct result of using the > text installer, which doesn't account for the tools at all. We will > be using the Dwarf Caiman installer for the next SXDE release and the > slice layout will be done quite a bit differently, see this thread: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31265&tstart=0 > That's good - it does seem that it takes pretty much the opposite decision to one that would make sense on a single-partition 'consumer/hobby' install -- it may make sense for systems which are primarily storage based or automounting applications, or placing database or mail storage on other volumes (ie pretty much everything I use Solaris for at work) but its just a world of pain for casual installs onto a PC to play with the dev tools -- or indeed with postgresql, or with Cool Stack.
I think the defaults should look much more like a Windows or Ubuntu or similar install - swap and 'everything else'. Anyone who desires to do otherwise is hopefully understanding why they want to do it and competant to make some sort of decision. BTW I noted that Moinak had enabled swap to a Linux swap partition - will we have an option for that too?
