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OpenSolaris Community: Installation and Packaging

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Community Observers

• Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited
  
• Device Detection Tool
  
• Image Packaging System
  
• Indiana
  
• Live Media: Technologies for distributions running from CD and other media
  
• Network Auto-Magic
  
• SVR4 Packaging
  
• Tamarack: Removable Media Enhancements in Solaris
  
• lofi compression & cryptography support
  

Welcome to the OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging community!

This community is dedicated to technologies and processes related to installing and maintaining software on OpenSolaris-based disributions, including tools used in building distributions. We also welcome discussion (and projects) related to other packaging technologies.

We are currently home to four active projects:

• Caiman installer, which is building the OpenSolaris installer
• Image Packaging System, the new packaging system being used in OpenSolaris
• SVR4 packaging tools, which are the legacy tools included in the Solaris product and OpenSolaris-based distributions
• Live Media, to support running Solaris directly from non-disk media such as DVD or flash memory

Please join or browse the community discussion!

Announcements

08 Dec 2006	Caiman UI Mockup
08 Nov 2006	Caiman Architecture Review
20 Jun 2006	Solaris SVr4 Packaging Requirements & Guidelines
23 Mar 2006	Solaris Installation Strategy review
05 May 1997	SolStart: Solaris OEM System Installation Interfaces

Blogs

dminer - OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release Candidate

Nov 8, 2:17 PM

Last night we posted the first release candidate build for the 2008.11 release.  The announcement message has the details on how to get it and so on.  One very important limitation to point out is ...

sch - 2008.next: demonstrating suspend-resume

Nov 5, 10:11 AM

Randy has been blogging on the suspend-resume feature and how it's been improving on a variety of x86-based systems. A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the USGS Menlo Park campus , and decided to ...

sch - 2008.next: Recovering a dropped data pool

Nov 2, 1:20 PM

As you update your pkg (5)-based system to build 100a, you might see a message on console during startup. It will look something like WARNING: pool 'zeta1' could not be loaded as it was last accessed ...

sch - 2008.next: Easy install for docutils

Sep 18, 3:33 PM

It's been a busy summer, mostly trying to manage conflicting schedules at home while staying loyal to the six month release schedule for OpenSolaris at work. Schedules everywhere, it seems. I've been ...

dminer - OpenSolaris ISO's for build 95

Aug 14, 8:55 AM

We've just pushed the repository update and ISO's  for build 95, see the announcement . As with build 93, the ISO's are available via torrent , though I'd expect genunix and others to mirror shortly ...