[geeks] Gentoo / Sparc / Java development anyone?

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au>
> Date: 2004/07/21 Wed PM 01:59:37 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: [geeks] Gentoo / Sparc / Java development anyone?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:50:08PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I'd like to see .iso images that turn old Sun Ultra 1 machines into network
> > appliances (Preconfigured OS & third-party software, with wizards/READMEs to
> > support configuration)... Images I'd like would be intranet webserver, SAMBA
> > file server, thin clients, firewalls, routers, etc.
> 
> Relatively easy to do with a Flash archive - just build a machine as you
> want it, flash it, and then make a CD/DVD with a miniroot and the flash
> archive on it to install your new machines.

I'd thought something like that would be a solution, but I must confess I am "Flash archive" ignorant (something that should be worked on ;^)... It could be an interesting project, but I don't think I would be able to share my efforts (license issues - the solaris install/executables would be part of the .iso, and would not be able to be shared by me without explicit license from Sun, I would imagine).
 
> The hard bit is writing the software to run the "appliance" in the first
> place...

Well, I think the sunfreeware CD/effort goes a long way towards putting all the bits together, but the trick is the pre-configured part...

Maybe I'll take a look at the Sun Blueprints and see if I can't put a simple Flash archive together (for, say, the web server image) - are the freely available Sun Blueprints geared towards this kind of effort?

Thanks!