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

[Ken Gunderson]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 20:32 +0000, 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.
> 
> I guess we'll find out soon enough :-)

Care to elaborate? 

-- 
Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>