Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6o_jmGQm0dWeW45SjhfbklFVlE https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6o_jmGQm0dWSGV6UGE2RExnUU0 it was compiled a while ago ... hopefully it will still work ... I've not tried again since. we use SunRays and win2k8 servers with RDP for our accounts system (running in KVM on Illumos :)) ) so there wasn't much need to implement it in the end. Jon On 8 October 2012 18:05, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: True, but I'm talking about the native SVR4 packages for NoMachine NX on SPARC Solaris, already bundles for Solaris 8-10. It may work with minimal hacking on OpenIndiana for SPARC. Jonathan, could you maybe give me some pointers on how you compiled it from source? I was trying to read the documentation that came with the source, and it was so confusing that I wasn't able to finish the task. I'm a big fan of NoMachine NX, and would *love* to see it in action on the Solaris and illumos platforms! I already filed an RFE a while ago when the illumos project was originally forked, but I haven't any activity since. Cheers! On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 October 2012 17:26, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: If SVR4 packages work on the current OpenIndiana, you may want to look into NoMachine NX instead. That would probably be your easiest and best solution for what you're trying to do. www.nomachine.com I got this to work relatively well on Solaris 10 (x86) and early OpenIndiana (x86) when compiling from source ... but it took a fair amount of hacking to get it to use system libraries where they existed ... there are however no Solaris x86 clients. Jon ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode The Drumhead - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
True, but I'm talking about the native SVR4 packages for NoMachine NX on SPARC Solaris, already bundles for Solaris 8-10. It may work with minimal hacking on OpenIndiana for SPARC. Jonathan, could you maybe give me some pointers on how you compiled it from source? I was trying to read the documentation that came with the source, and it was so confusing that I wasn't able to finish the task. I'm a big fan of NoMachine NX, and would *love* to see it in action on the Solaris and illumos platforms! I already filed an RFE a while ago when the illumos project was originally forked, but I haven't any activity since. Cheers! On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 October 2012 17:26, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: If SVR4 packages work on the current OpenIndiana, you may want to look into NoMachine NX instead. That would probably be your easiest and best solution for what you're trying to do. www.nomachine.com I got this to work relatively well on Solaris 10 (x86) and early OpenIndiana (x86) when compiling from source ... but it took a fair amount of hacking to get it to use system libraries where they existed ... there are however no Solaris x86 clients. Jon ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode The Drumhead - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
On 5 October 2012 17:26, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: If SVR4 packages work on the current OpenIndiana, you may want to look into NoMachine NX instead. That would probably be your easiest and best solution for what you're trying to do. www.nomachine.com I got this to work relatively well on Solaris 10 (x86) and early OpenIndiana (x86) when compiling from source ... but it took a fair amount of hacking to get it to use system libraries where they existed ... there are however no Solaris x86 clients. Jon ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
If SVR4 packages work on the current OpenIndiana, you may want to look into NoMachine NX instead. That would probably be your easiest and best solution for what you're trying to do. www.nomachine.com On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:57 PM, David Halko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kumar, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan ku...@xstorsystems.com wrote: Hi Martin --- On Tue, 10/2/12, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: From: Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org Subject: Re: [developer] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer) To: develo...@lists.illumos.org, Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 8:19 AM On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... [snip] it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... Maybe you have already evaluated this option, but we have come with a way to perform an automated install without requiring a network connection while still using IPS. Let me know if you need more details on what we did if you think it would be helpful for you. If it works under SPARC, I would be interested in some alternatives. Right now, Martin is the first SPARC distribution out of the gate - would love HTTP, TFTP, NFS, or WebNFS options. I now have 3 V120's in the test lab: - 4 Gig RAM (DVD) - 2 Gig RAM (CD-ROM) - 1 Gig RAM (CD-ROM) Depending on how this goes, will start adding V100's. Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Kumar --- illumos-developer Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21175352-313cabda Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175352id_secret=21175352-bac0445a Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode The Drumhead - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
Hi Rob, I did not see a posting from you on the list, could it be that you are not a subscriber? I will forward your question on to the list. Hello List, Can anyone provide a suggestion for how vnc server and gdm can be enabled on a SPARC headless server? David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ P.S. Rob is starting an X Gui wrapper for SVR4 package installers On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Rob Petty rob.a.pe...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Petty rob.a.pe...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [developer] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer) To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Cc: develo...@lists.illumos.org Hello Martin and all, I'm working with David on his SPARC systems (do not have video cards), When trying to enable GDM, we're receiving an error: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found Any help with this is appreciated. - Rob (more extensive log follows) # svcs gdm STATE STIMEFMRI maintenance23:05:06 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default # svcs -L gdm /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-gdm:default.log # cat /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-gdm:default.log [ start + 135.51s Disabled. ] [ Oct 3 23:03:53 Enabled. ] [ Oct 3 23:03:55 Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm start). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found [ Oct 3 23:03:55 Method start exited with status 127. ] [ Oct 3 23:03:56 Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm start). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found [ Oct 3 23:03:56 Method start exited with status 127. ] [ Oct 3 23:03:56 Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm start). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found [ Oct 3 23:03:56 Method start exited with status 127. ] [ Oct 3 23:04:30 Leaving maintenance because clear requested. ] [ Oct 3 23:04:30 Enabled. ] [ Oct 3 23:04:30 Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm start). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found [ Oct 3 23:04:30 Method start exited with status 127. ] [ Oct 3 23:04:43 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ] [ Oct 3 23:04:43 Disabled. ] [ Oct 3 23:05:06 Enabled. ] [ Oct 3 23:05:06 Executing start method (/lib/svc/method/svc-gdm start). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm: not found [ Oct 3 23:05:06 Method start exited with status 127. ] On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, David Halko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day Martin! Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4 Gig RAM. - it takes about 48 minutes to boot - we have no video display, so we use the serial console - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an external VNC console - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a live-dvd server environment This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very professional! As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less serial-less installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance. I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to pkgadd -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install against a ZFS alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build environment, named by release. There is no reason this could/should not be 100% automated. Once again, we could help here. Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some NFS network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable enough to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could make a very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first box, validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package; keep a few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we could get a little guidance. I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100% technically accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
Hi Kumar, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan ku...@xstorsystems.com wrote: Hi Martin --- On Tue, 10/2/12, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: From: Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org Subject: Re: [developer] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer) To: develo...@lists.illumos.org, Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 8:19 AM On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... [snip] it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... Maybe you have already evaluated this option, but we have come with a way to perform an automated install without requiring a network connection while still using IPS. Let me know if you need more details on what we did if you think it would be helpful for you. If it works under SPARC, I would be interested in some alternatives. Right now, Martin is the first SPARC distribution out of the gate - would love HTTP, TFTP, NFS, or WebNFS options. I now have 3 V120's in the test lab: - 4 Gig RAM (DVD) - 2 Gig RAM (CD-ROM) - 1 Gig RAM (CD-ROM) Depending on how this goes, will start adding V100's. Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Kumar --- illumos-developer Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21175352-313cabda Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175352id_secret=21175352-bac0445a Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
Good Day Martin! Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4 Gig RAM. - it takes about 48 minutes to boot - we have no video display, so we use the serial console - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an external VNC console - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a live-dvd server environment This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very professional! As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less serial-less installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance. I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to pkgadd -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install against a ZFS alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build environment, named by release. There is no reason this could/should not be 100% automated. Once again, we could help here. Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some NFS network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable enough to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could make a very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first box, validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package; keep a few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we could get a little guidance. I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100% technically accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited, and there are others ready to dig-in and bring this forward. For storage, test systems, scripting, and automation - we can find some resources. We don't do C, nor do we do pretty, but we do functional. Thanks - David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. Thank you for your efforts! Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under SPARC OI since it is so buggy a moving target. There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in SVR4 packaging. Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... As for IPS I could not agree more with you. The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything. From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough. From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!). Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours, then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... See the thread pkg-discuss] gcc install? under: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ... tnx rgds, %martin http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940 https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty soon) Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
I got my Sun Blade 2500 to boot with Martin's build, I made a Google+ photo album with the system and screenshots. I was unable to get X11 to come up, the screenshots show my efforts. It has an XVR-1200 framebuffer, and it originally came with an XVR-600 as well, which I pulled. http://dft.ba/-1Ynd Hopefully I'll be able to get some progress with openXsun booting, I may just not know how to do it. Great work, Martin! On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, David Halko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day Martin! Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4 Gig RAM. - it takes about 48 minutes to boot - we have no video display, so we use the serial console - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an external VNC console - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a live-dvd server environment This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very professional! As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less serial-less installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance. I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to pkgadd -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install against a ZFS alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build environment, named by release. There is no reason this could/should not be 100% automated. Once again, we could help here. Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some NFS network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable enough to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could make a very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first box, validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package; keep a few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we could get a little guidance. I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100% technically accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited, and there are others ready to dig-in and bring this forward. For storage, test systems, scripting, and automation - we can find some resources. We don't do C, nor do we do pretty, but we do functional. Thanks - David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. Thank you for your efforts! Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under SPARC OI since it is so buggy a moving target. There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in SVR4 packaging. Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... As for IPS I could not agree more with you. The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything. From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough. From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!). Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours, then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... See the thread pkg-discuss] gcc install? under: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ... tnx rgds,
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
It started with a Sparc, and from the Ray of light the Sun rose once again... Op 3 okt. 2012 om 20:42 heeft Daniel Kjar dk...@elmira.edu het volgende geschreven: look like the same issue I had. Just make the /dev/fb link yourself and delete the lines in /lib/svc/method/xsession that try to determine the link independently. I have an xvr-1200 as well. worked great for me after that. On 10/ 3/12 12:35 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: I got my Sun Blade 2500 to boot with Martin's build, I made a Google+ photo album with the system and screenshots. I was unable to get X11 to come up, the screenshots show my efforts. It has an XVR-1200 framebuffer, and it originally came with an XVR-600 as well, which I pulled. http://dft.ba/-1Ynd Hopefully I'll be able to get some progress with openXsun booting, I may just not know how to do it. Great work, Martin! On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, David Halko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day Martin! Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4 Gig RAM. - it takes about 48 minutes to boot - we have no video display, so we use the serial console - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an external VNC console - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a live-dvd server environment This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very professional! As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less serial-less installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance. I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to pkgadd -x option for a wanboot min ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. Thank you for your efforts! Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under SPARC OI since it is so buggy a moving target. There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in SVR4 packaging. Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... As for IPS I could not agree more with you. The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything. From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough. From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!). Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours, then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... See the thread pkg-discuss] gcc install? under: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ... tnx rgds, %martin http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940 https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty soon) Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
