[oi-dev] SPARC Text Installer

[Matthew Wilby]

Hi Ken,

On 23 February 2011 14:33, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Matt,
>
> See Jon Tibble and Martin Bochnig for more extendibility.
>

I have no idea who Martin Bochnig is. In one of the OI meetings I asked how
many people were looking at SPARC and the impression was that it was only
Meths (Jon) and myself afaik.


> Create SPARC distro fundamentally based on oi_148a (02/23/11) ISO.
>

I've already done an Illumos build mirroring x86, same as what is in
oi_148a. I've stopped, because I don't want to end up spending a huge amount
of time producing something that won't be used.


>
> Anything SPARC related is considered 'server only' now. Text installer and
> a CD iso for minimal supported SPARC server hardware.
>
> All workstation/desktop SPARC capabilities is considered minimized
> supported work. Sys admin can grab XNV/JDS from IPS.
>

That's what I was suggesting in my first post. Concentrate on server
hardware.

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,

Matt
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