I just made a try at Milax: the smallest Solaris, the size is about 91MB.
So download time is fairly reduced, compared to the previous Solaris distribution (6 CDs)
Then, i simply burn it on a CD. Time to burn is also very quick: less than 2 minutes.
By the way, burning a CD on Solaris Express is no longer a nightmare. You just start Nautilus, locate your .iso file you downloaded, and right click on it and choose burn a CD.
And there you are, you get the Milax grub:
Twenty second later, you can connect with login alex and password alex:

Then if you want to have X, just type in startx

