Kent Watsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want a Solaris-based Dom0 to host various machines on my 
> home-network.  I've been trying to use SXCE, but getting it installed on 
> a compact flash card requires starting with "Core" and then adding 
> xVM-oriented packages (and all their recursive dependencies), which 
> involves extensive use of `pkgadd`, `pkgdep` and `spc`, which is way 
> more involved than it should be...
>
> OpenSolaris-2008.05 has a much better packaging system, but its touted 
> as a "desktop" / "laptop" OS - and my system doesn't fall into either of 
> those two categories.  Just the same, is there any reason for why it 
> wouldn't work as a server setup?  Also, does anyone know how large its 
> base-install footprint is?  - is it possible to customize the 
> installation to skip things like XWindows?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
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There's no options, you can't change anything.  Caiman's installer makes 
things extremely stupid.  Sun's intentions are faltering, just stick 
with SX:CE.  Afaik there's no real progress being made to pitch Indiana 
as a server platform.  After install you could maybe remove stuff, but 
its fingerprint is up to 3GB and it runs on root/boot zfs. and ips has 
automatic snapshots, which you probably don't need to be so automatic as 
you're modifying packages anyways.

James
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