On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:19:21PM -0800, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> Let me try to be more clear. I do not have any interest in building a distro.
> That's not what I'm asking about.
>
> I would like to be able to fix some bugs in format(1m), fmthard(1m) and
> fdisk(1m) w/o spending 10x the effor
On 2013-02-07 00:12, Ian Collins wrote:
Reginald Beardsley wrote:
Why can't a custom distro be just a disk image created w/ dd dumped
into a slice which is as large or larger? Is there so much metadata
stored that this won't work anymore? If that's the case, we ought to
be able to script fixin
Reginald Beardsley wrote:
Why can't a custom distro be just a disk image created w/ dd dumped into a
slice which is as large or larger? Is there so much metadata stored that this
won't work anymore? If that's the case, we ought to be able to script fixing
it if we know where it is.
Well it
--- On Wed, 2/6/13, Jim Klimov wrote:
> From: Jim Klimov
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Buildable distro?
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 9:03 AM
> On 2013-02-06 15:27, Stefan
> Müller-Wilken wrote:
> > Well, I unders
uired packages.
I'll repost my query to the dev lists.
Have Fun!
Reg
--- On Wed, 2/6/13, Stefan Müller-Wilken
wrote:
> From: Stefan Müller-Wilken
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Buildable distro?
> To: "openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org"
>
> Date: Wednesday
I'm strongly with you in that putting proper zone setup into a how-to as an
optional but possible step is cool. Even more as it gives you the security of
being able to reduce the risk that installation of dependency packages always
imposes. And it shows off on one of OIs core features. =-)
Rega
On 2013-02-06 15:27, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
Well, I understand your grudge. I feel the same regarding the kernel itself. When linux
can be built using "make dep clean all", then why must it be a major endeavor
with IL/OI?
But on the other hand, that's how Linux started back in the day, to
Well, I understand your grudge. I feel the same regarding the kernel itself.
When linux can be built using "make dep clean all", then why must it be a major
endeavor with IL/OI?
But on the other hand, that's how Linux started back in the day, too. First
distributions were a hell to set up but i
--- On Wed, 2/6/13, Stefan Müller-Wilken
wrote:
> From: Stefan Müller-Wilken
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Buildable distro?
> To: "openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org"
>
> Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 2:28 AM
> Hi Reginald,
>
Hi Reginald,
have you had a look at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Distribution+Constructor
? It has been tested with oi148 but might still work with oi151a_7 - and if
not, was a good candidate for a wiki update... ;-)
Cheers
Stefan
Acando GmbH, Millerntorplatz
On 2013-02-06 03:21, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
But then I could do RAIDZ2 if I had 4 drives ;-)
Note that while this might give you better redundancy compared to raid10
(with a raidz2 you can tolerate loss of any two disks, and in a raid10
you can only tolerate loss of two disks from different s
Linux has long had the ability to rebuild itself as part of a distribution, at
least for the ones I've played with to any degree.
Is there anyone in a position to easily produce a buildable OI DVD? In
particular, one that tracked the current build. Something that if I bought a
machine and ded
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