Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An installation report and a few questions from a Solaris neophyte.
Thanks to everyone for your replies to my message. I can figure out how to
add my information to the wiki if someone will create an account for me.
Just point me in the right direction.
It's been a busy week. The issue with ndp filling up the kernel was not
fixed. I just disabled the ndp service. The way I see it is that if
anything depends on it in the future I'll trouble shoot it then but for now
I have more important things to learn about. I have been learning about
zones, networking configuration, service management, a bit about user
accounts, and a smattering of other things. I have created a vnic,
configured a zone and installed a zone with an exclusive ip stack set up
for dhcp, configured the DNS (although I don't why I had to create
resolv.conf: dhcp should take of that), installed tmux, the UTF-8 locale,
openjdk8, and now it's a minecraft server on my LAN. I have got to say
that it was more work than I expected since the zone install is the very
definition of minimalism. It took a few tries to get it right, but I have
a much better understanding of what I don't know yet just from setting up a
small zone. Thank goodness for wikis and mailing list archives. One thing
that didn't work was the zone-proxy-cache from the wiki article. I think
it may be missing a step but once I stopped trying to use it things
progressed much faster.
My current TODO list, in no particular order:
{([ I still need to turn on m firewall but I don't want to lock myself out
of the system when I do it ;-) For now the server is two routers (and
their firewalls) away from the internet but I want move it back to being
the main gateway for my LAN.
I need to set up the VNC server and try it out. I might even keep it
running for a few days.
I need to learn more about RBAC, roles, pfexec, etc. so my user account can
be plugged into them so I can stop using sudo for everything.
Getting KVM working is still on the list but I have time before I really
need it for anything. The lack of familiar tools will slow me down a bit
anyway so I don't want to rush and make a mess of my system.
Investigating 2FA options for my ssh connection once I am ready to move it
back to the gateway role. Where's the fun in remote access if you only do
it through 10 meters of cat6?
Learn more about IPv6 and the OI networking tools (so I can get to the
bottom of the ndp issue) and test and deploy: routing, a dhcp server, and
a local DNS server on the system.
Maybe install and use an irc client.
Learn more about SMF. Things like it's tools and how the layers of
services are structured.
Learn more about pkg. Things like it's tools and how the layers of
packages are structured.])}
And that's just a few days worth of what I know-that-I-don't-know. Imagine
what I'll know-that-I-don't-know in 6 months or a year! Anyway, I should
get back some food and get back at it. If anyone has advice about common
pitfalls or if your years of experience tell you that I really need to
prioritize or add something to my list please feel free to mention it.
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] An installation report and a few questions from a Solaris neophyte.
Greetings, First off, thanks for making OI. I have successfully installed Hipster 18.04 on my home serve, a Xeon D-1520 with 32GB RAM, 4x1TB HDD in raidz and dual 1Gb Intel NICs (It's an ASROCK D1520D4I motherboard, just for the record). I also have an Nvidia GTX750-ti card in the PCI-e slot. The only hardware in the system that doesn't have a working driver is the Intel Management Engine. Since this is a home server, I never use it anyway. In order to install the operating system I had use the text installer via the LiveUSB image because the TextInstaller image flooded the console with kernel messages like these: in.ndpd[574]: [ID 302683 daemon.error] incoming_ra: SIOCSLIFLNKINFO (interface igb0): Invalid argument in.ndpd[574]: [ID 102006 daemon.error] prefix_update_k(igb0, igb0:6, ::/64) from to ONLINK name is already allocated This meant that the text installer was scrolling off the screen faster than I could read and respond to it. Having to download the installer twice was a minor thing for my part, but might mean that the project is spending more on bandwidth than it needs to so I thought I should bring it up. I had read a bit before trying the install and I knew that I wouldn't be able to install OI onto striped mirrors (raid10) like *BSD so I chose raidz instead. I had to reboot and restart the the installation once because I had created the zpool manually, but when I tried to install to an existing zpool the installer didn't prompt me to create a user account. I can see the logic behind this if one is upgrading or recovering an existing system. Anyway, the text installer had trouble overwriting the zfs info I had added to my disks and when I rebooted the OI bootloader couldn't mount the zpool. Knowing that this was above my pay grade I just installed again. After the install: The MATE desktop looks and acts almost just like Linux. There were a few cosmetic glitches when changing themes, but logging out and back in resolved them. The messages from ndp are still coming fast and furious but I am closer to finding out how to disable them. I am currently reading about man pages about service management and trying to do my homework before I make any changes. The sshd daemon works great out the box and I was able to return my server to it's normal headless state. So now a few questions: Is there a preferred VNC server I should install or will ssh be "good enough" for remote administration of the system? When I do 'pkg search libvirt' and 'pkg search virt-manager' I can see: pkg.fmri setopenindiana.org/system/library/libvirt pkg:/system/library/libvirt@0.5.11-2015.0.2.0 and pkg.fmri setopenindiana.org/desktop/virt-manager pkg:/desktop/virt-manager@0.6.1-2015.0.2.0 However I think that these are pkg categories since I can't install them. Are there other packages I should be searching for in order to get libvirt up and running for remote KVM management or will I have to do everything via command line? Thanks for reading this and have great day! Marc Roberts ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
