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Yesterday the OpenSolaris Install team released their first preliminary version of OpenSolaris which is capable of installing without a GUI, meaning entirely text based, this is great news and in due time now that SXCE is being pulled. It should now be much easier to install SPARC and xVM DomU’s, and what’s equally exciting is that it doesn’t install GNOME, this is ideal for servers where you don’t want all that GUI clutter.

The install team has been working on a text-based installer for OpenSolaris.
While this installer is not quite complete, given the timing of the SXCE to
OpenSolaris transition, we are making available a preliminary version of the
text installer, based on OpenSolaris build 131:

o supports SPARC/x86
o 512 MB minimum memory requirement
o cpio based install
o installs basic headless server environment (no Gnome Desktop)
o tip/serial line install recommended for SPARC

These are pre-integration bits from the project gate. Updates will be provided
with each successive build of OpenSolaris until such time as a formal delivery
is complete (after 2010.03) and RE assumes the building and distribution of images.

The CD images are located at:
SPARC:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/131/textinstall-131-sparc.iso
Size: 674 MB

x86:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/131/textinstall-131-x86.iso
Size: 680 MB
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/131/textinstall-131-x86.usb
Size: 816 MB

MD5 sums are located at:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/131/md5sum.txt

Please read the release notes page at:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Text+Install+b131+Notes
for known limitations, a FAQ, and a link to open bugs.

Bugs can be filed on bugzilla at http://defect.opensolaris.org
Classification: Development
Product: installer
Component: textui

For more information on the text installer, see:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/TextInstallerProject

Please refer any questions to: caiman-discuss@opensolaris.org

Thanks,
Sue