[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[geeks at litfire.com]

Phil Stracchino said:
> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > [1] My favorite example (prior to the Solaris installer becoming a
> >      Java abomination) is the installer for the Sun Work^WStu^WONE
> >      compiler suite.  Try installing v6 on an Ultra 1E or an Ultra 2
> with
> >      a healthy amount of memory.  If you install -everything-, it'll
> take
> >      an hour or so.  If you drop to the command prompt and do yes |
> >      pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/Product all, it takes about 6 minutes.
> But,
> >      oooh, the Java installer is portable, so I can install my
> >      Solaris/SPARC compiler suite on...oh, right.
> 
> 
> *grin*
> 
> Yeah, I've seen that kind of stupid before .....

Like Oracle Report Server requiring an X display to generate reports it's
going to send out reports via HTTP, requiring installation of a virtual
framebuffer or vnc?

Why hasn't anyone gone apeshit on Oracle for such ridiculousness and gotten
them to "fix" that?

-Anthony