[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success!

[Gary Gendel]

All,

A big congratulations to the development team.  My main SOHO server's OS 
has not been upgraded since os_134b because OpenIndiana failed to 
install for one reason or another.  The last of the problems was with 
bge and usb drivers.  I tried oi_148b and finally have OpenIndiana 
running.  In fact, all the little projects I wanted to try (i.e. 
netatalk) went without a hitch.

The only caveats I have for people upgrading are:

1) If you had SpamAssassin installed, the move from perl 5.8 to 5.10 
means you'll have to install it again.  The only issue I had was that 
the spamc tests failed the build.  I force installed it anyway since I 
don't use spamc in my setup.

2) I'm still getting the occasional error in the logs:

mDNSResponder: [ID ... daemon.error] ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4

This seems to happen much less than it did in os_134b (I turned off 
avahi and mDNS in 134b because of this).

That's it!  Everything else went smoothly.  Goodbye OpenSolaris, hello 
OpenIndiana!  Kudos. I'm a very happy camper.

I'll have to try oi_148b on my ThinkPad z61p laptop again. That was 
getting close too. :)

Gary