Installing Solaris from a another active version of OS i.e. Windows/Linux and other OS's would allow Open Solaris a whole new world of users, this install process would need to support a Java installer classes and use the native system properties with the ability to have java classes run. So in using this methodology is supported by some versions of Linux to allow a Windows user run a setup Linux on their hard drive and boot into it. This would offer an extra avenue to bring a whole lot of legacy Linux servers over to Open Solaris.
So the DVD installer java classes would need to manipulate partitioning with fdisk then run a newfs with ufs or zfs native support under the native OS, installing/modifying a boot block with native version of installboot/installgrub and run a java version installer from the DVD that calls pfiinstall and pkgadd of the cluster choice that the user chooses, and would be needed and allow the user to reboot the new Solaris kernel on the newly defined partition! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
