> <div id="jive-html-wrapper-div"> > <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b > class="gmail_sendername">Alan Coopersmith</b> <<a > href="mailto:alan.coopersmith at sun.com">alan.coopersmit > h at sun.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote > class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid > rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; > padding-left: 1ex;"> > Due to some changes planned in the way install images > are built<br>for Solaris Nevada, we've been > having an internal discussion this<br>week about > whether it would be okay to drop CD images for > the<br>future Nevada builds (which the community sees > as Solaris Express: > <br>Community Edition) and only have DVD > images.<br><br>We've got some statistics which > show downloaders seem to prefer<br>DVD images over CD > at about a 2:1 ratio - but we don't know if > those<br>downloading CD images could use DVD images > instead. > <br><br>The internal discussion thus has been based > mostly on our assumptions<br>about who the community > members are and what hardware they have, but<br>no > one has yet asked the community.<br><br>Would you > have a problem with DVD-only images for > SX:CE? Do you have > <br>systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't > have DVD drives and that<br>you can't netinstall > from another system or Live Upgrade from a > mounted<br>image?</blockquote><div><br>I think for > x86 its okay to discontinue cdroms ( a box with 256MB > ram most likely has a dvd drive or can spend $20 and > get a dvd drive, but for sparc it should be continued > many sparc machines that run solaris 10 don't > have dvd drives and scsi dvd drives are not > cheap and are hard to find used. > <br><br>James Dickens<br><a > href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com";>uadmin.blogspot.com< > /a><br><br> </div><br><blockquote > class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid > rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; > padding-left: 1ex;"> > --<br> > -Alan > Coopersmith- > <a > href="mailto:alan.coopersmith at sun.com">alan.coopersmit > h at sun.com</a><br> & > nbsp; Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > Engineering<br> &nb > sp; February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the > Month Club > <br>_______________________________________________<br > >opensolaris-discuss mailing list<br><a > href="mailto:opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org">open > solaris-discuss at opensolaris.org</a><br></blockquote></ > div><br> > > </div>_______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org If the install is ratio for DVD 2:1 , there is still a big need for CD's, you should look into automating and cut down the manual build process for posting the CD and DVD's, and build some audit scripts for the build process for a verification process. I believe the CD will be needed for quite a while. also as new types of media become available i.e. USB ram pocket ram disks can handle the larger ISO image, some PC can be set to boot from these types of devices, will need to be considered for installing. I this should be part of the project to review the install build process. This message posted from opensolaris.org
