OpenSolaris and Belenix On XO Laptops

big one bigone at qon.lao.net
Sat Sep 29 04:13:58 EDT 2007


I read that OpenSolaris can be booted from EFI machines such as Sun and Apple machines.
Belenix is a LiveCD based on OpenSolaris.

Is it possible to boot OpenSolaris from OLPC?
Is it possible to use OpenSolaris in OLPC with external USB storage without ZFS?

>From OpenSolaris discussion board:
"OLPC now uses LinuxBIOS. Osol can be made to boot with LinuxBIOS:
http://blogs.sun.com/szhou/

The OpenSolaris kernel can boot and work in OLPC and 256MB RAM should be enough to run a lightweight GUI. Some stripping of modules are definitely required, including having a minimal Xorg. Keeping a controlled set of apps will be enough to fit Osol onto a small footprint diskspace. There is a lot that won't be required in the OLPC environment.The difficulties I see are having a lightweight filesystem for the Flash storage with compression support. ZFS is a little too heavy for the OLPC application domain."

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