One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a
mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I have been thinking
that the best option would be to include templates in the installation
procedure that could pull down different packages sets depending on what
kind of distro you want. e.g - Indiana, minimum, Reference.
What do you guys thing?
-Brian
On 6/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Lunnon writes:
>> The Reference Platform would then be defined as one that emulates this
>> as closely as possible without adding extra features that could
>> inadvertently differentiate the reference plaqtform from a given
distro.
>
>That's possibly doable, but I think it also runs directly into one of
>the (apparent) goals of Indiana: having a reference distribution that
>we *want* people to see on the top-level site and download as the
>preferred introduction to Solaris.
>
>A stripped-down version would fail miserably at attracting new users,
>as it'd appear (by definition) to be even less functional than what we
>have today.
What would it include then? Something less than Solaris Express? Solaris
Express and then some? Solaris Express + something - something?
I still stand by my suggestion that we need to have a nice reference
distribution which you can rebuild yourself.
- Download opensolaris.iso
- Install opensolaris.iso
(Compilers and everything???)
- Boot reference release
- cd /usr/src
make opensolaris.iso
and have pretty much the same thing as before.
Casper
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