andrew wrote:
>> We've never had 2 copies of all the packages on the
>> live CD - why do you think
>> there are?
>
> Because I was under the impression that there are two copies of each piece of
> software on the live CD - executable directly from the CD and as cpio
> archives for installation. The inability of the packaging system to support
> installation from a local filesystem is something which should have been
> addressed before the 4th release, I would suggest. As should some way of
> getting rid of one of the copies on the live CD.
That's how the old Solaris installer works (the one in SXCE and Solaris 10),
but it has a much more limited miniroot that is booted, without a lot of the
LiveCD functionality, so it minimizes the duplication (not enough so that it
can fit the miniroot plus initial packages on a single CD in recent Nevada
builds, which is why SXCE has been DVD only for a while).
As Shawn already explained, that's not the way the OpenSolaris LiveCD works.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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