Hello Thomas, The IPS zone installed is truly a minimal one around 200MB, by the way it's installed trough IPS which tends to be a bit long depending on mirrors.
Regards, Olivier ________________________________________ From: ug-chosug-bounces at opensolaris.org [ug-chosug-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Javier Conde [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:53 PM To: Thomas Leveille Cc: ug-chosug at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [ug-chosug] "minimal zones" Bonsoir Thomas, I don't know how you did, but every time i've dine a zone in opensolaris, it did always install a minimal OS, around 200mb. Which type of zone did you selected? The one I like is IPS, which allows you later to add packages in the standard opensolaris way. Regards, Javi El Oct 3, 2009, a las 20:23, Thomas Leveille <thomas.leveille at gmail.com> escribi?: > Hello guys, > > I'm more used to zones in solaris. I recently installed an > opensolaris machine which I updated today to build 124. If I am > correct, sparse zones are currently not supported in opensolaris > which is a big regression. > > I wanted to create a zone and it seems to take a very long time. > From what I understand, it downloads and installs the packages from > the whole distribution. > > That ips thingy looks like it was made in the paleolithic to me, > from what I understand, nexenta seems more powerful in that area. I > don't want to install the whole desktop in my zone. Is there a way > to select packages or ask for a minimal install in an ipkg branded > zone ? > > > Regards > > -- > Thomas Leveille > _______________________________________________ > ug-chosug mailing list > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug _______________________________________________ ug-chosug mailing list ug-chosug at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug
