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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

geeks at litfire.com wrote:
> 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?

Actually, Oracle has gotten *better*.  I seem to recall having to use an 
X display to install the *Windows* version of Oracle at one time.  (6.0?)

Peace...  Sridhar