OpenSolaris

1. Project: Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited
   1. Developer Information
   2. Discussions
   3. Install Downloads
   4. Caiman Program Meeting
      1. Caiman Program Meeting Minutes
         1. MInutes from 2007 meetings
   5. Automated Installation Project
      1. Automated Installer Team Meeting
         1. AI meeting minutes
         2. bugs discussion meeting minutes
      2. Automated Installation Documentation
         1. installadm(1M)
      3. Design Notes
         1. AI Overview
         2. Network Image Design
         3. Network Protocols
         4. AI SMF Services
         5. AI Engine
         6. AI Manifest, Rules and System Configuration
         7. AI Utilities
         8. AI SPARC Support
         9. Derived Manifests Problem Statement
         10. Derived Profiles Functional Specification
         11. AI client redesign 6/03
      4. Ai Requirements, June 2008
      5. Automated Installer Requirements-Initial
      6. Automated Installer Prototype
      7. Automated Installation Testing
         1. Automated Install Test Plan for OpenSolaris 2009.06
      8. WebServer Redesign Use Cases
      9. Web Server Redesign Problem Statement
      10. Derived Manifests
          1. Functional Spec
   6. Distribution Constructor Project
      1. Distribution Constructor Meetings
      2. Distribution Constructor Documentation
         1. Getting Started
      3. Design Notes
         1. Language Notes
         2. TI_Notes
         3. transfer_Notes
         4. Enhanced SMF Profile Research Notes
         5. Finalizer Prototype
   7. Slim Install Project
      1. Slim Install Meetings
         1. Minutes for Aug 8
         2. Minutes from Aug 21
         3. Minutes from Aug 28
         4. Minutes from Sep 4
         5. Minutes from Sept 11
         6. Minutes from Sept 25
         7. Minutes from Jan 15 2008
         8. Minutes Jan 22
         9. Minutes from Feb 5
         10. Minutes from March 11
      2. Slim Install Documentation
         1. Welcome to Indiana!
            1. Roadmap
            2. System Requirements
            3. Prototype Limitations
            4. Multiboot Prep
            5. Partitioning
            6. How to Install
            7. nwam(1) Man Page
            8. GParted
            9. Parallels
      3. Slim Install Announcements
      4. UI Specification
      5. Slim UI Roadmap
      6. Issues Tracked for Oct 2007
   8. Snap Upgrade Project
      1. Meetings
         1. Minutes
      2. Snap Upgrade Documentation
      3. Design notes, Thoughts etc...
         1. Upgrading Containers Requirements
      4. Snap Upgrade Test
   9. Caiman on SPARC
      1. SPARC meeting minutes
   10. Dwarf Caiman Project
       1. Dwarf Project Team Meetings
       2. Dwarf Caiman Demo Page
   11. Caiman Unified Design
       1. Meetings
   12. Caiman Version Compatibility
       1. Meeting notes 5/14/2009
       2. Thoughts and Ideas
       3. Meeting Notes for 5/20/09
       4. Draft Proposal Notes
       5. Meetings Notes from 5/28 and 5/29
       6. Meeting notes for 6/10/2009
       7. Install Versioning functional spec
   13. XML Parsing
   14. Virtual Machine Constructor
   15. Text Based Installer Project
       1. Text Based Installer Meeting Minutes
       2. Text Installer Prototype
       3. Text Installer Tasks List
   16. Leaders
   17. Blogs
   18. Files
   19. Observers
   20. Events
   21. News
   22. Test Information Summary

OpenSolaris Project: Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited

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Project Observers

Endorsing communities

Device Drivers
Installation and Packaging
Logical Domains
Testing

Caiman is the code name for the program, and set of projects, to create a new OpenSolaris installation experience. The working ideas center on concepts such as:

• Updated and simplified graphical and text user interfaces which carry Sun's current branding
• Integrated hardware compatibility testing
• Integrated live CD/DVD experience to provide a "try before you buy" capability
• Deep integration with the latest Solaris features, such as ZFS and SMF
• Simplified system configuration, integrated with the post-installation experience
• Simple, fast, and reliable installation of additional software after installation

The problems which Caiman is attempting to solve are described in the Solaris Installation Strategy

An early architecture document from October 2006 is available for review. An update is intended.

Weekly program team meetings are held and are open to all interested. We can also be contacted in real time via IRC on the #caiman-discuss channel at chat.freenode.net.

Come join or browse the discussion list!

Further Reading

• See the Developer Information page for information on how to access the source code and contribute
• OSOL Install wiki – An OpenSolaris Installer Space is available on wikis.sun.com for installer related TOIs and other documents.

Current Projects

Please see the page for each project for current plans and status.

• Slim Install
• Distribution Constructor
• Snap Upgrade
• Automated Installation
• Caiman on SPARC
• Caiman Unified Design
• Virtual Machine Constructor

Completed Projects

• Dwarf Caiman

Blogs

dminer - Upcoming user group meetings

Jun 17, 9:54 AM

A couple of user group meetings next week in the northeastern US.  For those in New England, NEOSUG is meeting on June 23.  I won't be there, though, as I'll be in New York for some customer events ...

Joseph Vlcek - Automated Install using Virtual Box

May 7, 7:55 AM

Overview: These are the notes I wrote while setting up an AI server test bed using Virtual Box. The configuration consists of two Virtual Box clients running on a single host. The host must have at ...

dminer - Creating OpenSolaris USB sticks from Windows

Apr 10, 11:09 AM

A utility like this has been on my list of things to do forever, and I'm *really* happy to see that someone in the community has done the work.  Just a caution that I haven't tried it out yet, so no ...

nadkarni - Why I removed Ubuntu ..Really!!

Apr 2, 8:44 PM

  A couple of  months ago, I got  a new workstation.  A quad core Xeon box from Dell. It came with preinstalled Ubuntu.  I decide to play with that for while.  After a while I noticed that the system ...

nadkarni - pogolinux offers preinstalled OpenSolaris 2008.11 systems

Apr 2, 8:18 PM

  We recently got a few Nehalem systems from pogolinux .  When ordering we noticed that they offered to preinstall the systems with OpenSolaris 2008.11.  Naturally we chose it. The systems arrived, ...