[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris CD usable as a repository?

Luis de Bethencourt luisbg at ubuntu.com
Mon May 12 08:25:28 PDT 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Mark J Musante <mmusante at east.sun.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>  > However, even if the depot server is distributed, I believe the
>  > installer works by performing a cpio operation to copy the files to the
>  > target install location.
>
>  So, if the required drivers don't exist on the live cd, then there's no
>  way to get opensolaris to work?  Without NDIS he can't get on the network,
>  and without the network he can't install gcc.  Classic catch-22.
>

Is installing by hand and not through IPS an option?

Luis de Bethencourt

>
>  Regards,
>  markm
>
>
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