On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 20:32 +0000, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On 24 Feb 2011, at 00:10, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > On 02/23/11 04:02 PM, Sean wrote: > >>> i'm just wondering why is illumos based OI dev build 148a larger then > >>> solaris 11 express? > >> > >> Because it has more bits? o_O > > > > And probably because Solaris 11 Express removed packages from the LiveCD > > until it fit onto a CD, and that iteration hasn't happened yet for a first > > development build. The tradeoff between what comes on the CD vs. needing > > to be installed from the repo later is flexible, and was adjusted many times > > during OpenSolaris development, especially as we neared milestone releases > > and needed to shrink the image to fit the media again. > > We should probably slim the LiveCD down a bit. Presumably if we built 151a > consolidations, and used distro-const from 151a, we'd end up with a CD rather > than a DVD. > > I guess we'll find out soon enough :-)
Care to elaborate? -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
