[OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

Mon Oct 1 14:52:01 UTC 2012

No I have not work on this during the weekend, but tomorrow I'll probably
try with basic installation of OpenSolaris 134 and try with creating new
BE!

Regards Andrej

P.S. I had no problems with seeing the disks...

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

> hmmmm.... mine is not even seeing the disks installed on the system....
>
>
>
> On 09/28/12 01:15 PM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I also have no issues to boot liveDVD on my headless SF210 (LOM). Also had
>> no issues to start net with DHCP and IPv6 autoconf., start ssh ....
>> But the question remains how to install it on disk?
>> I followed manuals on Oracle howto create mirrored rpool...
>> - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E23824_01/html/821-1459/**diskssadd-2.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1459/diskssadd-2.html>
>> -
>> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E18752_01/html/821-1910/**
>> migratingufsoverview.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/821-1910/migratingufsoverview.html>
>> - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E19082-01/817-2271/ggtia/**index.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/ggtia/index.html>
>> rsync-ed content of (liveDVD booted) / to prepared rpool/ROOT/Martux
>> ....?!
>> and got:
>> ======snip======
>> {0} ok boot
>>
>> SC Alert: Host System has Reset
>> Probing system devices
>> Probing memory
>> Probing I/O buses
>>
>> Sun Fire V210, No Keyboard
>> Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> OpenBoot 4.18.10, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #OMITED.
>> Ethernet address OMITED, Host ID: OMITED.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rebooting with command: boot
>> Boot device: /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2/disk at 0,**0:a  File and args:
>>
>> Can't open boot_archive
>> ======/snip============
>>
>> Now what?  :)
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Andrej
>>
>> BTW: I just noticed that I forgot to recreate boot_archive
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
>> <shadowhunter at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>  I think my SB2500 has either an XVR-600 or XVR-1200, can't remember off
>>> the
>>> top of my head. Will find out tomorrow when I work on the host for the
>>> first time in a while! :)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
>>>> <shadowhunter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I downloaded it yesterday - I *LOVE* working in a datacenter and being
>>>>>
>>>> on
>>>
>>>> the backbone directly! I frequently hit 40Mbit download rates! Took
>>>>>
>>>> less
>>>
>>>> than 10 minutes!
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be installing it over the weekend on my SB2500 Red, in case the
>>>>> original DVD-ROM didn't work, I ordered a MSI DVD+/-RW drive from
>>>>>
>>>> Newegg,
>>>
>>>> should get it next week.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alex, this extra step indeed only required on the SB2500.
>>>> And maybe it was only caused by my cheap JLDS (or what it was,
>>>> manufacturer as reported by Joerg's cdrecord) DVD+R 4.7GB disks, with
>>>> the cheap label "Kaufland".
>>>> I had no other media anymore, will re-test the SB2500 Red and Silber
>>>> (both behave identically) tomorrow, with other vendor's DVD's.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  There is a full gcc environment available, correct?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I compiled /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and /usr/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc from
>>>> consolidation oi-build.
>>>> As I wrote yesterday somewhere, I was required to add an auto-applied
>>>> patch that changes the ./configure command line to include
>>>> --disable-multilib. Otherwise gcc doesn't compile on SPARC. However,
>>>> so nice so good. But this cause OS/Net or Illumos to fail instantly.
>>>> The solution is hidden in the special diffs that Sun used since
>>>> Solaris 10. But at the first place I had believed, a distro like OI
>>>> would years ago have included them And secondly I was under immense
>>>> time pressure, so I didn't look where we can get these diffs (or if
>>>> they are in the open at all). So I just kept it like that, for now.
>>>>
>>>> Because, and here it comes: The LiveDVD does include /opt/onbld,
>>>> /opt/dtbld and /opt/SUNWpro with Studio12.1 !
>>>> So you can still compile a lot of software, even that which requires
>>>> multilib support to be present in the compiler.
>>>> And the most famous example of such a src tree is OS/Net Illumos. To
>>>> build that customize illumos.sh to disable shadow compilation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  How large are the IPS
>>>>> package repos so far, Martin? If I could get a howto on building
>>>>>
>>>> packages
>>>
>>>> for IPS, I might be willing to help compile some software and publish
>>>>>
>>>> it. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, thanks Alex.What shall I respond to this?
>>>>
>>>> #0.) The difficulty lies not in compiling the code.
>>>> As you  see all the consolidations are already built, and copied over
>>>> to the 11GB LiveDVD (clofi gzip-6 compressed less than 4GB).
>>>> The problemm is also not building a repo when skipping dependency
>>>> resolution.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #1.) As I wrote yesterday, the best IPS repo documentation available
>>>> is on openindiana.org.
>>>> Go there! And save a copy before they may shut down the servers or
>>>> whatever.
>>>> It is excellent inside information that is available there.
>>>> Eric Lowe has a substantial share in that work!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your help is really appreciated.
>>>> And we SPARC users can and will somehow work as a community.
>>>> For that reason yesterday's critical questions, that I sent.
>>>>
>>>> Most importantly: For what do we need IPS?
>>>> SVR4 pkgadd can offer most the IPS's functionality that users really
>>>> demand (network-install and automatic fetching of deps).
>>>> To get IPS running has a price.
>>>> And it doesn't matter how large my test repo is.
>>>> I created several repos, and the largest has 2 GB.
>>>> But with the normal procedure of one would normally want to pkgsend
>>>> new packages into it, you could not even do the most minimalistic
>>>> stuff.
>>>> I'm writing this from abroad.
>>>> To post details I need to be at home.
>>>> But my proposal was: Why not simply ditching IPS.
>>>> I mean, if OI has no leader anymore, the main reason no longer exists
>>>> for which I had wanted to start with IPS at all, after I hesitated for
>>>> 2 years.
>>>> Isn't it pure irony?? After 2 years I finally decided to do it and to
>>>> share EVERYTHING and to ditch MartUX. For this reason it was called
>>>> SPARC-OpenIndiana.
>>>> And while I was woking it, the leader simply resigned because "Solaris
>>>> is outdated and doesn't perform as well as LinUX"????? I still cannot
>>>> believe that! Consequently I felt a bit pissed off, because at  least
>>>> he could have told me about his plans in adavnce!! Whatever, for this
>>>> reason (and for this reason alone!) the back-renaming to MartUX
>>>> OpenIndiana.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know.
>>>> But in my personal view this also allows us (on SPARC) to use pkgadd
>>>> instead of IPS.
>>>> Fight a few weeks with IPS, then maybe you understand what I mean.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for testing.
>>>> And I'm confident, that we can somehow build a community where
>>>> everybody has a role.
>>>> This mailing list has always maintained the highest standards, and it
>>>> shall be fun if we all can work together.
>>>> As promised, openXsun sources will get released.
>>>> We only need to find a good home for the repo.
>>>> Maybe we should ask Alan for an idea ... ??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>     %martin bochnig
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