[ug-bosug] reg Solaris Build 70 installation issues

[Moinak Ghosh]

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy 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 ?
>   

   What you are looking at requires quite a bit of work. The
   OS image must be configured to exactly handle one piece
   of controlled hardware. It will only contain drivers specific
   to that hardware. You will also need to tune to your use
   case. If for example one is building a storage box then it
   will need to have all the storage and networking related
   software: ZFS, NFS, iSCSI, Samba, Rsync etc.
   If you want GUI then you need Xorg. However just Xorg
   alone in it's entirety is about 170MB. So you will have to
   strip the Xorg setup as well. Remove all headers, docs,
   drivers. Have only the video driver for the video card
   you are using. Remove all unused libraries - depends on
   what apps you want to run on your minimal system.

   And all these cannot only be tackled by reducing the
   number of packages installed. Some of the tuning needs
   to go down to sub-package granularity. Essentially you
   will have to deal with understanding the purpose of
   individual files and deciding whether you need them
   or not.

   There is a plan to prepare a minimal image of BeleniX
   which can be tailored to fit vaious needs. For eg. the
   Storage/NAS thing I just mentioned. It is possible to
   prepare very minimal GUI desktop experience, but
   needs a predetermined video card and controlled set
   of apps.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Thank you.
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy.
>
>
>
> On 9/22/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear Shivakumar,
>>>
>>> Thank you for this response. This will help me get started.
>>>
>>>       
>>    Siva, are you expecting a version of OpenSolaris that uses
>>    70MB of space after installation or runs in 70MB of RAM ?
>>
>>    By 70MB, I indicated that the install process will block up
>>    70MB of RAM and use some more for running the processes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
>>     
>>> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>>>
>>> On 9/21/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On 9/21/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Dear Moinak Ghosh,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am attempting to install a small foot print solaris on a AMD Geode
>>>>> 700 board as also on a phone. Could you please tell me when this 70 MB
>>>>> foot print solaris experss is expected?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> As per Moinak's mail above the first beta is expected sometime in Oct
>>>> "It will be possible to do this once a Slim Install beta release is available,
>>>> sometime in Oct...."
>>>>
>>>> The second release will be in March.
>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install
>>>>
>>>> Also see
>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/uiroadmap
>>>>
>>>> The below thread provides some details as to what goes into each of
>>>> these 2 releases
>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=38317&tstart=0
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Shiv
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
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