On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:51 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: >>> [...]>> >> ? So ?try ?installing OpenSolaris ?and ?see ?if the ?network >> ? works. If it ?works then it you can install ?0.8 on top of >> ? OpenSolaris in another boot ?environment using the network >> ? installer. If network does not work in OpenSolaris then in >> ? all ?probability the ?driver issue ?persists and ?it won't >> ? work on BeleniX either. >> > > Can try this route. ?Need to d/l a CD of 2009.6 ?first ! On my > laptop ?I have ?been doing ?online updates ?since 2008.5, ?and > nothing has broken so far.Since I have not done an OpenSolaris > to Belenix online install till date, I have just two queries: > > a) Would ?my Intel Atom ?N230 processor based system ?have any > ? major issues ? AFAIK, Atom ?support came into Solaris early > ? 2009. Belenix 0.7.1 works (less networking). Has anybody so > ? far tried ? >
Should work. I don't forsee any major issues. > b) Would these steps from an installed 2009.6 suffice ? > > ? a) Get the 'install_belenix' script from belenix site. > ? b) pfexec ./install_belenix > > Or do I have to manually ?make fresh zones, and create another > boot environment, or any other process before install_belenix? > If yes, any guidelines ? > Nothing. The script does it all. In addition you also retain the ability to boot into OpenSolaris since the running boot env is left untouched. So ZFS magic allows us to multiboot 2 distros on the same partition. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
