On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:30 -0800, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: > > > Yuen L. Lee wrote: > > opensolaris could be a nice NAS filer. I posted > > my question on "How to build a NAS box" asking for > > instructions on how to build a Solaris NAS box. > > It looks like everyone is busy. I haven't got any > > response yet. By any chance, do you have any > > Hi Yuen > > May I suggest that a better question would have been "How to build a minimal > Nevada distribution ?". I'm sure it would have gotten more responses as it is > both - a more general, and a more relevent question. > > Apart from that unasked advice, If my memory serves right the Belenix folks > (Moinak and gang) were discussing a similar thing in a thread sometime > back... chasing them might be a good idea ;-) > > I found some articles on net on how to build minimal image of solaris with > networking. Packages relating to storage (zfs, iSCSI etc) can be added to it > later. The minimal system with required components, sure, is heavy - about > 200MB... but shouldn't be an issue for a *NAS* box. I googled "Minimal > solaris configuration" and found several articles.
Alternative way would be to simply use NexentaOS InstallCD and select "Minimal Profile" during installation. -- Erast _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
