Solaris 11 full DVD

Question

I know there has been a deviation with 11 from the way things were delivered in 10, but I downloaded the Solaris 11 Express ISO and it is only 500M. Reading the blurb about it, the expectation is that admins will start with that and add what they need from the Oracle repositories.
Question is - is that just how Solaris 11 express works - and Solaris 11 proper will work differently? i.e. Will Solaris 11 be made available on an approx 3Gb DVD?
My team provided a modified DVD to our admins which started with the full 3Gb Sol 10 DVD with our own apps added to it. I'm trying to do the same thing with 11 but the gap between the 500M image and the 3Gb image is huge - circa 1000 packages so the gap analysis is difficult.
Anyone "in the know" able to advise whether a full DVD will be available? Or indeed if there is another way of approaching this?

Answer 1

Thanks for that reply Alan, but I'm actually trying to build a bespoke ISO which includes a standardised (full) Solaris 11 and some third party software as welll.
Rather than create a package which I can put in a repository somewhere and have our admins install post-build, I want to create a build ISO up front with everything we want in it, most of which will be compulsory, but some of which will be optional software.
I can see that Distribution Constructor gives me the basic framework to do that, but I can't figure out the fine detail for mods to the manifest file to actually achieve that.
So far, I have downloaded the full ISO (5Gb) from Oracle and made an IPS repository out of it. I then modified the text_mode_x86.xml manifest file to include some extra lines for example:
<pkg name="pkg:/developer"/>
When I run distro_const I get the following type of errors:
# distro_const build /usr/share/distro_const/text_install/bespoke_text_mode_x86_full.xml
/usr/share/distro_const/DC-manifest.defval.xml validates
/tmp/bespoke_text_mode_x86_full_temp_2438.xml validates
Simple Log: /rpool/dc/logs/simple-log-2011-10-12-14-42-58
Detail Log: /rpool/dc/logs/detail-log-2011-10-12-14-42-58
Build started Wed Oct 12 14:42:58 2011
Distribution name: Oracle_Solaris_Text_X86
Build Area dataset: rpool/dc
Build Area mount point: /rpool/dc
==== im-pop: Image area creation
Initializing the IPS package image area: /rpool/dc/build_data/pkg_image
Setting preferred publisher: solaris
Origin repository: http://sol11tst
Verifying the contents of the IPS repository
pkg list: no packages matching 'pkg:/developer' allowed by installed incorporations or image variants that are known or installed
Use -af to allow all versions.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/distro_const/im_pop.py", line 515, in <module>
"repository")
Exception: /usr/share/distro_const/im_pop.py: Unable to verify the contents of the specified IPS repository
Child returned err 1
Build completed Wed Oct 12 14:43:06 2011
Build failed.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What does "no packages matching 'pkg:/developer' allowed by installed incorporations or image variants that are known or installed" mean? It's not specific to pkg:/developer - it failed on a huge list of package categories I tried to add.
Also, does anyone know how to make packages optional at install time? I can do that quite easily in HP-UX by using post-install scripts but can't see how to do that in Solaris.
Thanks in advance,
GXW