[OpenIndiana-discuss] why is OI- illumos based 148a 805mb

[Edward M]

On 02/23/11 16:10, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 02/23/11 04:02 PM, Sean wrote:
>>>   i'm just wondering why is illumos based OI dev build 148a larger then
>>> solaris 11 express?
>> Because it has more bits? o_O
> And probably because Solaris 11 Express removed packages from the LiveCD
> until it fit onto a CD, and that iteration hasn't happened yet for a first
> development build.   The tradeoff between what comes on the CD vs. needing
> to be installed from the repo later is flexible, and was adjusted many times
> during OpenSolaris development, especially as we neared milestone releases
> and needed to shrink the image to fit the media again.
>
     Hi,

    thanks for the response. that is what i thought was the case.


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Regards,
Edward