[OpenIndiana-discuss] Buildable distro?

[Ian Collins]

Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> Why can't a custom distro be just a disk image created w/ dd dumped into a slice which is as large or larger?  Is there so much metadata stored that this won't work anymore?  If that's the case, we ought to be able to script fixing it if we know where it is.

Well it could if every target machine was identical...

> The LiveCD is great, but there are problems it doesn't solve and sometimes what you really need is just a copy of something that works.

In that case, if you have a reference system, half of a mirrored boot 
drive would do the trick.

-- 
Ian.