Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Robert Bauer
But I would like to know if its easy, like in Linux and BSD*? It's definitely not the one button/command process that Linux has. It's very much a manual process with quite a few requirements and pre-requisites. Have a look at the link I posted on the 12th -

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Robert Bauer
So I think you're just about as safe trusting Sun distros (Solaris, SXCE, OpenSolaris .mm). The Solaris (as opposed to ... I know that one day I could hire IT specialist to fix me maybe the OpenSolaris kernel. But first I need to know if in theory this would be possible. By the way: On

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Bauer wrote: I have still one question: Is the OpenSolaris kernel full open source?! Or is it closed source? What do you thing the Open in OpenSolaris means? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Bauer wrote: So I think you're just about as safe trusting Sun distros (Solaris, SXCE, OpenSolaris .mm). The Solaris (as opposed to ... I know that one day I could hire IT specialist to fix me maybe the OpenSolaris kernel. But first I need to know if in theory this would

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
... Hope it helps. Thanks for the information. However I would like still know how to recompile the kernel: I don't trust binary files. I know some kernel programming unter Linux. I would like to use OpenSolaris on a production system, and I would be able to fix the kernel if there

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-23 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:03:16 PST Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: None of which should discourage you from going there, if you know you have a really good reason; the more that learn to, the better. But it's probably more effort for less situations where it's necessary, so I don't

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-22 Thread Robert Bauer
... Hope it helps. Thanks for the information. However I would like still know how to recompile the kernel: I don't trust binary files. I know some kernel programming unter Linux. I would like to use OpenSolaris on a production system, and I would be able to fix the kernel if there is a

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-22 Thread Steve Scargall
But I would like to know if its easy, like in Linux and BSD*? It's definitely not the one button/command process that Linux has. It's very much a manual process with quite a few requirements and pre-requisites. Have a look at the link I posted on the 12th -

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Bauer
... Why do you need to re-compile the kernel? If one day I would have a strange problem on my production server, I would be able to fix the problem myself. Maybe somebody here would provide me a patch of the kernel or something like this. I would like to be able then to apply the patch,

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-20 Thread Steve Scargall
... Why do you need to re-compile the kernel? If one day I would have a strange problem on my production server, I would be able to fix the problem myself. Maybe somebody here would provide me a patch of the kernel or something like this. I would like to be able then to apply the patch,

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Bauer
Source code isn't there in repository. You can just clone it using hg and do your things. Click on the download icon, the full process is documented very nicely. Could you please tell me where the process is documented? And what download icon do you mean? -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Scargall
One process/method is documented here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ If you want different flavours of OpenSolaris have a look at the list here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ Why do you need to re-compile the kernel? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-14 Thread Robert Bauer
In Linux I go to /usr/src/linux and I do make menuconfig. How do I compile the opensolaris kernel? I can't find the source code in the repository. I prefer to have the source code installed and to know how to compile the kernel, in case if one day I need to play an urgent patch or something like