Daer Bob, Thanks for email.
bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > The basic model for Solaris installation is that LiveCD is intended > for laptops or workstations But I can't use that anyway as I have SPARC (T5140). bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > and Text installation or AI is intended for servers. They install > different sets of packages which target the intended model. > multi-user-desktop is an optional package (group) intended for desktop > servers (i.e. Sun Ray). I used the text installer (from DVD and controlling it via the service processor), but it did not seem to offer me any options of what package set to install. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > May I suggest that instead of using LiveCD for Sun Ray, you use the > Text installer and then install group/feature/multi-user-desktop. This > will do several useful things for you: 1. It will install a more > minimal package subset for desktops. I did not see it offer me that choice. From what I saw, and from what I read in the Note on page 16 of the March 2012 ediiton of "Installing Oracle Solaris 11 System", it only installs the solaris-large-server package when using the text installer directly. Thus, after that I then installed the slim_install package (as as recommended then removed that group container leaving the packages it has sucked in intact) and then I also installed pkg install SUNWdhcsb SUNWdhcs SUNWdhcm pkg install /x11/library/libxevie pkg install SUNWmfrun SUNWtltk SUNWdtbas bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > 1. It will install a more minimal package subset for desktops. Our machines do sometimes run the odd cpu-resource-limited zone too so I really need more than "just" desktop. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > 2. It will configure networking appropriately for a server instead of > a laptop (e.g. no NWAM, static address) yes, I gave it fixed addresses and the SMF services that are live show that is the case. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > 3. I will install the core dependent packages required by SRS (DHCP, > CDE/Motif) I hope the packages I mentioned I had installed a few lines ago meet those requirements too. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > 4. It will provide an SMF 'multi-user-desktop' service I don't seem to have that running. ======== root@wiked:~# svcs -a | grep -i multi disabled 17:50:20 svc:/network/dns/multicast:default online 17:51:08 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online 17:51:11 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default root@wiked:~# ======== from what you say, should I see a service called "multi-user-desktop" too? bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: > which you can enable to provide some useful optimizations for Sun Ray > deployments (mostly restricted choices for desktop users to mitigate > desktop features that don't scale well in shared environments). We'd > be interested in feedback regarding experiences with that service. > There's a document that describes how to configure it, should you care > to: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26032/index.html I will have a look at that document before I go further. I have been tied up in a variety of meetings this morning so not gone any further today. I am presuming also that I will need to update the IP config (at least editing /etc/hosts) using the commands that Toomas suggested earlier anyway. As I noted in other emails, one of the commands (utadm -a net1) fails unless I manually change /etc/hosts anyway... I downloaded the new SRS etc fine. My problems are that if I try to run utsetup that bombs out and when I try to start again (on a new BE) and instead try to manually go through utinstall, utconfig, ... instead various of those are bombing out too. Anyway, thanks for advice, I will read that document and then try more things. I am keeping notes so perhaps I will have a full comprehensive set that may have value to others once I get this going (optimist here :-)) Thanks, Dave Price _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
