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 > > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > 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.
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