On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:43 PM Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tim, > > Thanks for answering my post. I have been reading a lot of the > documentation and will do some more reading over the next couple of days in > preparations. > > Although I am still not sure where the main build branch is to create the > LiveCD of OI (Hypster), it seems that these are the important locations: > > https://github.com/OpenIndiana > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source > > My next steps, I am guessing, will be to install OI on some native hardware > so that I will have a build environment in OI to build OI LiveCD and then I > will try to do a basic complete build without modifying anything. If that > goes well then I can investigate taking out packages from the LiveCD. > You can generate live/install images using the Distribution Constructor as described at: https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/distribution-constructor/ To customize the image you need to modify a manifest such as the ones used by Alexander for release images: https://hipster.openindiana.org/distro_const/ If you do not want to rebuild all the packages for your tests you can use an existing repository or mirror it locally. You need to modify the manifests accordingly so that pkg_repo_default_authority points to the right repository. > > I would like to see how small I can make the actual LiveCD with GUI. > > Cheers, > Lonnie > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:43 PM Tim Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building OpenIndiana from > sources,...: > > > > > Anyway, the first thing that I would like to figure out is the whole > > build > > > process and package selections since the ISO that I have been > installing > > is > > > 1.6 GB. > > > > http://docs.openindiana.org and then Handbook->Developer's Corner is > > a good place to start. > > > > >Now I want to see if I can build a much reduce size of this. > > > > You certainly could, you'll just have to make lots of choices about > > what optional dependencies you can live without when building a > particular > > package. > > > > You'll want to look at the REQUIRED_PACKAGES in the Makefile for each > > component. You'll probably also want to look at what's installed because > > of a particular incorporation. > > > > Tim > > -- > > Tim Mooney > [email protected] > > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 > (Voice) > > Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) > > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
