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I've been playing around lately to see how small of a Solaris image I can get that will boot to a shell prompt... It turns out, it can get pretty small.. And it boots to the prompt in ~ 1 second... Although there's not a lot you can do with it :-)

SunOS Release 5.11 Version onnv-3.3-mrj 32-bit
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WARNING: Last shutdown is later than time on time-of-day chip; check date.
strplumb: failed to initialize drv/dld
# df -lk
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/ramdisk:a             38255   15146   19284    44%    /
/devices                   0       0       0     0%    /devices
/dev                       0       0       0     0%    /dev
ctfs                       0       0       0     0%    /system/contract
proc                       0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                 1768156       0 1768156     0%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                      0       0       0     0%    /system/object
sharefs                    0       0       0     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
# du -sk *
31      boot
952     dev
1       devices
67      etc
6087    kernel
4849    lib
8       lost+found
1931    platform
11277   proc
122     sbin
1441    system
1       tmp
59      usr
3       var
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