[ug-bosug] reg Solaris Build 70 installation issues

[Anil Gulecha]

On 9/22/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Moinak,
>
> That was a good guess that I did not understand what this is all about.
>
> I thought that you have arrived at a version of Solaris that is
> stripped down from the 3.5 GB+ install size down to 70 MB.
>
> There was an earlier post on this subject with a valuable response
> from Ananth Shrinivas that led to
> http://blogs.sun.com/szhou/entry/build_a_minimal_solaris_image and
> http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-small-can-you-make-open-solaris.html
> . I thought that Solaris 70 is a work in that direction.
>
> If Solaris 70 is not exactly that, then I am looking for a minimal,
> bare minimal, stripped down version of solaris with just the basic
> files needed to boot the GUI to have a minimal browser running.
>
> Apart from the response from Ananth Shrinivas I have some more leads
> on this, and am ready with two minimal boards and some interesting
> hardware to try a minimal installation. Can I ask installation help
> from Open Solaris ?
>

I think what Siva is trying to say is something like a minimalist
belenix + xfce(or fluxbox) + firefox. This should run within 256 mb of
Ram IIRC from previous discussions. I think this should be possible..
given that the ramdisk = 70 mb + Wm (30-100 mb) + firfox (10 mb)

Regards
Anil