> 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.
Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability to install from local files though. ;-) Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
