[indiana-discuss] [OT vmware] Why express iso

[Harry Putnam]

I'm just barely beginning with opensolaris. I ran solaris a bit a few yrs ago
before it was called opensolaris.  But have nearly forgotten whatever
little bit I may have learned.  And anyway am now interested in
building up a home zfs server.

To start, I thought I would try installing in a vmware just to learn
enough to later on, install on a real machine with a heard of drives
and maybe not have too much trouble getting the zfs setup running;
having wet my feet a little in the vmware.

Cutting to the chase here:... reading along in the 2006 letter A kind
solaris user has put up on the opensolaris sight (sorry don't have it to hand
to quote names or whatever), but i notice he recommends we install in
the vmware from the `express' image.

Is there some reason that is necessary?  I'd like to use the same
image I plan to install the server from.  Which I guess would be;
osol-0811-99.iso 

Which reminds me of another question I wondered about. 
At the ftp site I used:
   ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/opensolaris/current/
 
I see there are 3 images all different sizes and slightly different
dates.

  691251200 Nov 28 18:09 osol-0811-99-global.iso
  770197504 Nov 28 18:08 osol-0811-99.iso
  720697344 Nov 25 20:41 osol-0811.iso?e=\
          1230212147&h=f84928d9dd10d88a36465d29abd5d2eb

I went through several of the `getting started' pages searching for
`global' thinking some kind soul might have explained the difference
there... but didn't find an explanation.  I'll admit I didn't spend
much time on it, but enough to search 3 or 4 webpages from the FAQ,
looking for `global'.

I'm probably just being dumb as a stick here but what is the
difference between global image and the plain image? And what's up
with the thing with the equal sign and what looks like and md5
checksum in the name?  Looks a tad large to be just an md5 checksum. 

Does the global one just have more languages  included?  But then you'd
expect it to be a bit bigger rather that a bit smaller...

And where is the `express' model?