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