Ray Clark wrote: > The intent of my question was to understand the future state. The upshot > seems to be that no, future versions of Solaris will NOT provide only "Idiot > level" installation options, but will provide good levels of flexability / > configurability one way or another. In the short term sxde provides either > the old or a shell-of-a-new installer. > > I also thing that fludolph is saying that the system I just installed has the > root on zfs ?!? I'll have to check that out. > > Thank you! >
The area where flexibility will remain is likely to be disk selection/configuration. Given that future Solaris releases will use only ZFS root, there won't be choices regarding the size of various OS filesystems; ZFS avoids that mess. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
