[ILUG] In other news

[Niall Walsh]

Paul Jakma wrote:

> The archives typically are installed with BFU, which is a shell 
> script. Feel free to read it and figure out what needs to be done to 
> install it from, eg, a linux or whatever miniroot.

Can someone else (i.e. I don't care and wouldn't have the knowledge) not 
build an install cd?  Go through the pain of getting the working 
binaries, and then use them to build their own version of an OpenSolaris 
Express installer (or some other method of installing an OpenSolaris 
system).  Or what is missing, or what am I missing?  Is it the installer 
itself that's missing?  If so it shouldn't be hard to knock up some form 
of primitive installer which would work surely?

 From there how long from there until we have a Debian GNU/OpenSolaris?  
Or is CDDL even DFSG Free (the patenting clauses anyway makes me 
wonder)?  Of course whether it's worth it or not is another matter.  I 
guess both will be projects like rebuilding a Freely redistributable 
Suse/Novell Professional image, a test of just how many people care.

Niall