scope (was Re: [indiana-discuss] ZFS to the max)

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/07/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> >> I think SUNWCreq may actually be more than we want. Does anybody know
> >> how big it and all of its dependencies is?
> >
> > Compressed, I believe it's about 90MB as of snv_67 (the numbers that
> > Glynn posted were I believe the uncompressed sizes of the packages).
> >
> > Enclosed below is a summary of SUNWCreq - there are some parts which
> > could probably be removed (such as the NFS server or FTP packages) but
> > initially I would concentrate on what besides SUNWCreq is of interest
> > and come back to SUNWCreq if necessary.
>
> I've taken a look at this list, converted the listed clusters into packages, and
> got some *compressed* package sizes -
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~gman/creq-package-list-sizes.txt
> http://www.gnome.org/~gman/creq-package-list-sizes-ordered.txt
>
> The top packages are the following -
>
> 9.4M    SUNWckr                         Core Solaris Kernel (Root)
> 7.2M    SUNWcsl                         Core Solaris, (Shared Libs)
> 6.5M    SUNWcslr                        Core Solaris Libraries (Root)
> 5.4M    SUNWcsu                         Core Solaris, (Usr)
> 5.3M    SUNWperl584usr                  Perl 5.8.4 (non-core)
> 4.6M    SUNWmdb                         Modular Debugger
>
> which are all pretty small generally.
>
> FWIW, the top contenders of the 1st Solaris CD (outside SUNWCreq) are -
>
> 26M     SUNWj6rt                        JDK 6.0 Runtime Env. (1.6.0_01)
> 14.4M   SUNWxorg-server                 X.Org Foundation Xserver
> 13.9M   SUNW5ttf                        Traditional Chinese (BIG5) True Type
>                                         Fonts Package
> 9.1M    NVDAgraphics                    NVIDIA Graphics System Software
>
> with 61.5M for the boot miniroot, and 68M for X server install image.

That looks crazy enough that it just might work! :)

I only hope that all the problems related to Java 6 are sorted out by
the first ISO spin (Studio installer, other crashes, etc.)...

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