On 7/3/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Solaris Express does have better driver support than Solaris 10. I > had similar problems installing Solaris 10 previously. If you are only > wanting to try out the features of Solaris, and not install into > production, then Solaris Express maybe a better choice.
Yeah, but the problem was I wanted to try using Solaris as a production install. I'd had a test box (again NForce4, but newer - 430) with ZFS running for a week and though setting it up had been a pain, once going it was fine as a samba server. Hence me trying an install on an old server that was out of service after a drive failure. The Nforce networking driver and 3114 driver not working on the first generation of the hardware without a recent bios (which isn't available) is a major issue, for most people it is a showstopper, people will be installing Solaris for the first time on "old" available hardware, not buying new hardware to test an new distribution. > Solaris is installed such that root access is denied via ssh. To get > around this, login as root on the console and create a user account. You > then can ssh into the user account and then su into root. I found the solution in seconds thanks to google, it's just an inane situation if there is only a root account on the box. > A normal user account 'should' be created as part of the installation > process. This is coming as part of the project to rewrite the installer. Yeah, I assumed it wasn't deliberate, it didn't make me any happier though as I wrestled a big heavy server full of hard disks back out of a rack so I could attach a screen... > Init.d scripts are deprecated on Solaris nowdays. I think there are some > SMF manifest files for samba on the net. Just try a search for "smf" and > "samba". (SMF leaves Linux/Solaris/whoever init.d for dead) I think that's a matter of opinion:) I don't know anything about SMF but I've just had a look at http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=182 and it looks total overkill for Indiana. Maybe if I was running a 32 cpu multiuser box SMF would be great, but thats a job for Solaris not Indiana - XML manifests? Shudder. I've spent three weeks with Solaris, I think it would be very productive for people here to spend 3 weeks with Gentoo:) Someone here yesterday was writing about his attitude towards Linux, and then said he was a Slackware user - people here need to spend some decent time with a _modern_ linux distribution and then ask themselves what Indiana can offer that would be preferable - becouse at the moment you seem to be shooting for what Linux was like 5 years ago, rather than where it is today. > Actually, I think the same of every Linux box when I use one :) When? 1807? :) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
