System Requirements for Building Images

In order to use the distribution constructor, you must have system requirements as described in the following table.

Table 2-1 System Requirements

Requirement	Description
Disk space	The recommended minimum size for your distribution constructor work space is 8 Gbytes. Confirm that you have sufficient space on your system to use the distribution constructor.
Oracle Solaris operating system	You must have the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) installed on your system. Note the following considerations: Your installed system must have network access. The distribution constructor accesses Image Packaging System (IPS) repositories that are available on the network to retrieve packages for the ISO image. You must have network access to the repositories that you specify in the manifest file. When using the distribution constructor, you can create only SPARC images on a SPARC system and only x86 images on an x86 system. The Oracle Solaris release version on your system must be the same as the release version of the image that you intend to create with the distribution constructor. Note - You must become the root role to run the distribution constructor.
Required packages	The `distribution-constructor` package, which contains the distribution constructor application.

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