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

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 02/24/11 12:32 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2011, at 00:10, 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.
> 
> We should probably slim the LiveCD down a bit. Presumably if we built 151a consolidations, and used distro-const from 151a, we'd end up with a CD rather than a DVD.

At least using the slim_install definitions from the 151a distro-import would
get you to the same package set Oracle included in S11X 2010.11 - though you'd
have to adjust to not include the non-redistributable packages that you can't
include in OpenIndiana.

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