[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana book

Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhunter at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 20:01:50 UTC 2010


You could compile from source, it's not very difficult.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 14:58, Robin Axelsson
<gu99roax at student.chalmers.se> wrote:
> If I could choose I would probably use the webgui that comes with FreeNAS
> (freenas.org). I haven't looked into napp-it but I remember the confusion I
> had when I read in the OpenSolaris manual pages and the OpenSolaris Bible
> about the webmin tools and couldn't find it in the OS.
>
> It turned out that it wasn't included in the OpenSolaris, only on
> Solaris/Nevada. So my question was since the Oracle thing and all, if it has
> been reinstated with the OpenIndiana distros.
>
> I tried installing the webmin packages by ripping them off of the Nevada
> install CD. I ended up corrupting the OS in the process making it
> unbootable, so I wouldn't make such an attempt again unless I know it is
> safe to do so.
> - Robin.
>
>
> On 2010-12-30 20:15, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>
>> You can install webmin, if you want it. Also look into napp-it, a
>> web-based configuration tool for OpenSolaris and related distros.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 14:02, Robin Axelsson
>> <gu99roax at student.chalmers.se>  wrote:
>>>
>>> But does webadmin come with openindiana?
>>>
>>> On 2010-12-30 19:48, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Almost all of the stuff in the OpenSolaris Bible will be valid. The
>>>> sun userland still exists, and a lot of the management tools haven't
>>>> changed.
>>>>
>>>> Speaking of that, I think that's one of the books I'll buy with my
>>>> first paycheck... :)
>>>>
>>>> Best of luck.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 13:46, russell<stream at willows7.myzen.co.uk>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>
>>>>> My brother is going to switch to OpenIndiana in the new year and to
>>>>> reduce
>>>>> the number of "support calls" I purchased the OpenSolaris Bible as a
>>>>> Christmas gift.
>>>>> As OpenSolaris has been dropped, could this book be reworked but
>>>>> targeted
>>>>> at
>>>>> OpenIndiana in the long term as the book is as relevant to OpenIndiana
>>>>> users
>>>>> in the short term.
>>>
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