[indiana-discuss] 3.1) Installation

[Peter Tribble]

On 6/12/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
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> Media Contents
> ==============
> If we limit it to a single CD install, it puts off a lot of questions about what
> to include in terms of media contents.
>
>   We need to get a rough idea of file sizes for the various
>   consolidations as they currently stand. Assuming it should easily
>   be possible to do a core kernel install, basic utilities and a desktop
>   environment how much space does that currently consume?

As a minor amusement, I worked out how much space is used by the
various install clusters in Solaris. (You can get the package space from
pkginfo -l, but the package tools aren't aware of the install clusters.)

I've done this for two machines: an Ultra 20 with preinstalled Solaris 10
that I unpacked today, and an old sparc machine running current SXCE.
(I don't have an x86 machine with SXCE right now.) The lists are
sorted by cluster size in bytes, largest first.

http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/clustersizes.s10.x86
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/clustersizes.s11.sparc

The zeros in the s11 sparc case are things I've not installed.
(Although my guess is that Indiana wouldn't have much of that
stuff on the install CD either.)

(I can enhance this if desired, and if someone would like to
get the data for other builds - especially SXCE for x86 - I
can send them the extra class for solview I put together.)

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-Peter Tribble
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